Last week at MIX07 in Las Vegas, Microsoft took the wraps off of it's new web platform, called Silverlight. There's been a lot of buzz about it, and some pretty impressive demos. I was at MIX07, and sat down with Tim Sneath, technical evangelist for Silverlight at Microsoft, and shot this 40 minute video to give you the lowdown on Silverlight - what it's all about, how they crammed the .NET CLR into a 4 MB download, the significance of Silverlight's Mac and Firefox support, what about Silverlight for Linux and mobile, and tons more.

You can download the movie directly at this link (right click and Save) - about 40 minutes, 93MB Quicktime. It was originally shot in HD 1080i, and encoded at 640x360, so it should be Apple TV, iPod, and any-other-video-device friendly. And of course it will play great on your PC. Let me know if you have any problems with the video.

If you want to embed this video in your blog or website, just go to this video's page on blip.tv and click on "Share". Choose your format under Advanced Options, and copy/paste the embed code.

If you want to skip to a particular section of the conversation, here's an index of what we talked about, and where to jump to in the video:

• 03:09 - What do I need to create Silverlight applications?
• 03:40 - Silverlight and the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime)
• 08:25 - Silverlight Performance is incredible!
• 10:28 - You can use the .NET CLR without Silverlight presentation layer
• 11:20 - Silverlight support for Mac OS X (Safari and Firefox)
• 14:18 - Dynamic Language Support (IronRuby and IronPython)
• 16:14 - Silverlight Streaming Service (4 GB free hosting)
• 20:33 - Will there ever be Silverlight for Linux? Windows Mobile?
• 23:29 - Silverlight potential and advantages
• 28:38 - Will Google use Silverlight?
• 30:46 - Silverlight takes full advantage of multi-core processors! Yay!
• 34:24 - Links (see below)
• 34:59 - Silverlight Roadmap and Timelines

Here are the links that were mentioned in the video:

• http://www.silverlight.net - The main Silverlight community site
• http://silverlight.live.com - Silverlight Streaming (free 4GB hosting for anyone)
• http://blogs.msdn.com/tims - Tim's Blog

Enjoy the video, and post any questions or comments you might have - I'll try to track down an answer for you.

Thanks! :-)