Microsoft has always done well with version 3 goes the well worn saying. And so I have high expectations for SilverLight 3 which has just released. Being more involved with Security, Business Processes and Enterprise System Development I have not delved as deeply into SilverLight 1 and 2 as I had hoped. With this new release I feel I just have no choice and I suspect that if you are reading this then neither do you. Rich Internet Applications are really the best of both worlds given their low deployment hurdles (the gift that browser based apps bestowed on us) combines with rich and client processor driven user experience.

I had thought I would have years or at least a year more to wait for the third version, but Microsoft has been driven to outstrip the competition. I hope the competition tries to keep up since I like this pace very much.

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SilverLight in this new release has the makings of starting the next dev revolution I believe. If I am right this one will have as big an impact as the release of Visual Basic 3.0…