Scott Guthrie has announced the release of Silverlight 1.0 and the start of a formal partnership with Novell to provide Silverlight implementation for Linux (called "Moonlight").

Silverlight 1.0 is supported on Windows and Mac platforms.  Some of the features include:

• Built-in codec support for playing VC-1 and WMV video, and MP3 and WMA audio within a browser.
• Ability to progressively download and play media content from any web-server. 
• Optionally supports built-in media streaming.
• Enables creation of rich UI and animations, and blend vector graphics with HTML to create compelling content experiences. 
• Enables easy authoring of rich video player interactive experiences.

Moonlight will run on all Linux distros and support FireFox, Konqueror, and Opera browsers.

To learn more about Silverlight, visit www.silverlight.net.  Also, check out Miguel de Icaza's blog post to learn more about the details of collaboration between Microsoft and Novell on Moonlight.

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