Maybe it's the brainwashing drugs they give you here at MIX, or maybe it's just because Microsoft have really listen to the developers, but I'm in love with Microsoft.

The new enhancements made to Silverlight 3 (just released in Beta), can now fully compete with Adobes Air/Flex. Here's the short list of cool new features:

• GPU accelaration support in both Windows and Mac
• H.264 support
• Outside Browser support in both Windows and Mac
• Perspective 3D support
• Bitmap+Pixel API
• Support for Pixel Shaders
• Improved Deep Zoom
• Deep Linking
• Improved Text Quality
• Multi Touch
• 100+ Controls (as part of the SDK)
• Library Caching Support

Check out the Keynote with Scott Gu and the What's new in Silverlight 3 session when available on www.visitmix.com/2009.

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