Silverlight 2 Beta2 was released today. You can download both Silverlight 2 Beta2 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools support to target it here . Beta2 adds a lot of new features (more details below), but is still a 4.6 MB download that takes less than 10 seconds to install on a machine...

Microsoft continues to eat its own dog food to promote the adoption of its Silverlight technology. The company is beta-testing a new version of its Microsoft Download Center Web site using the technology, a browser plug-in and development runtime for adding multimedia and high-definition video to Web...

If Silverlight 2 is Microsoft's shining new addition to the family (and deservingly so) then gadgets, both Windows Vista Sidebar and web gadgets are the all but forgotten middle children. In this article I pose the question: Has Microsoft all but given up on it's gadget platforms? Consider the...

Microsodt Download Center is now in silverlight http://preview.microsoft.com/downloads/HomePage.aspx