Last week or so, I stumbled on to the site for the Visual Studio 2008 Demo Challenge . The gist of the contest is to make a video explaining why VS 2008 is great, and then win stuff. Your video is played backed in a Silverlight app that your host at silverlight.live.com. So I make a video, and I think...

Everyone is talking about the name change of WPF/E to Silverlight . If you don't know anything about it, then you've probably have been under a rock. Anyway, I thought some historical reflection might prove insightful. As we all know, Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Flash. The first version of Flash...