The Official Microsoft Silverlight site has a blurb at the bottom of their page that it is officially going “Silverlight-enabled” live tomorrow, April 30.
They already have free trials of Expression Studio (contains Expression Web, Expression Design, Expression Blend and Expression Media), Silverlight Samples, IE Developer Toolbar (Beta 3), Visual studio 2005 and the Silverlight SDK up on their Tools and Resources page. New Desktop wallpapers are also available for download as well as the Silverlight CTP on the Downloads page.
They also have a Blog page linking to their Development, Rich Media and Evangelism focuses, as well as forums dedicated to each focus.
It should be quite interesting to see how Silverlight moves into territory once controlled by Adobe’s (previously Macromedia’s) Flash. Rumors have been heard that Microsoft will be Open Sourcing some/all of the Silverlight code to match Adobe’s Flash Open Sourcing plans. That would be a great move on Microsoft’s part to give the Open Source advocates a little less ammo in their tirades against Redmond. We shall see!
The launch of the Silverlight site coincides with the beginning of MIX07 being held in Las Vegas, NV from April 30 to May 2.
UPDATE: The Windows Vista Blog posted some nifty information for Vista Ultimate Users. The Silverlight Team has posted a Silverlight Dreamscene on the Microsoft Download site, which is to be released this week at MIX07. You can grab it early in 16:9 or 4:3 format now, before anyone else.
