Recently there has been an interesting discussion about Silverlight penetration and market share. As always, people tend to connect Flash and Silverlight and use the market share as a single most important metrics – but here, I’m sharing some really cool, interesting and surprising (?) facts about Silverlight market share.

Expression Blend 3 brings a bunch of new and exciting features. They target designers and also address some challenges regarding designer – developer collaboration. SketchFlow, Behaviours, support for PSD and AI file import are some of the coolest new features.

Silverlight 3 beta and Expression Blend 3 beta have been released today at MIX 09 conference and I am bringing you overview of new features that make Silverlight 3 best RIA platform available – IMHO. H.264 support, GPU acceleration, 3D – these are just some of the more than 50 new features.

Silverlight has been launched in October 2008 and since it has gained impressive ground. While some keep arguing that Silverlight is immature and predict slowdown or even darker destiny to Silverlight, there are many reasons to think just the opposite. Here is why Silverlight will win the market.

I am pretty much sure you know what is DeepZoom and that it requires Silverlight as a platform. But what if you don’t use Silverlight and still want to have coolness of DeepZoom? Meet Seadragon AJAX – written in JavaScript it enables you to add DeepZoom viewer into your blog or website.

With Silverlight 2 released and already being installed on about 25% computers, we all look to new Silverlight 3. What we can expect from new Silverlight 3? What are new features in Silverlight 3 and why is this great time for you to start learning and exploring Microsoft Silverlight technology?

Microsoft has just released Silverlight 2.0 Release Candidate and set of tools and technologies to ease development with Silverlight 2.0. Expression Blend 2.5 seems to be obsolete since Blend 2 now supports development for Silverlight 2. Here is list of resources to help you out.

You have previous knowledge of working with Flash. You have heard about Silverlight. Now you want to use your previous knowledge and explore what Silverlight offers you. That’s just plain cool because here is Project Rosetta to help you out with some nice resources.