Finally, it is MIX 07 and I can breathe more freely.  We have known this internally for months, but the announcement was to happen at MIX.

Ray Ozzie started the keynote at MIX 07 with a great introduction, one of the best I've heard, to the Software + Service model.  Scott Gutherie, then came in and did some killer demos!! 

I will never forget ScottGu doing the Visual Studio Orcas remote debugging on a CLR process running within Firefox on a remote Mac system!  Wow!

And of course, the BIG BIG BIG SILVERLIGHT ANNOUNCEMENT!  We now officially have a cross-browser, cross-platform .NET runtime.  A runtime that has the very same CLR engine along with support for media playback, DRM, dynamic languages (IronRuby, IronPython, JScript and VBScript),  LINQ (!!), XML, REST/POX, AJAX and more!  All in 2MB!!!!!!  That is mind-blowing stuff!!!  When I'd first heard it, I thought it was a distant dream - but it is here and you can have the bits for yourself.

www.silverlight.net is the Silverlight community site. Check Soma's blog for the full announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/04/30/mix-07-silverlight-shines-brighter.aspx

Keep watching ScottGu's blog for he is sure to post some great stuff as well.  In fact, the auto-play chess game with .NET playing JavaScript (and winning) was a great demo and I would love to get my hands on that one!

Overall, I am super excited.  If you are a web developer, you should be too!  Because we have just opened up the web to never-before possibilities!