Microsoft® Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications.
Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.

The next generation of Silverlight 2 adds Charts, Image Sliders and more. You will be able to create apps having:
• * Richly compelling experiences.
• * Real relevance for business.
• * Interop with ASP.NET and AJAX.