I will prefice this review by saying that I have been working with Flash since it was called FutureSplash and had not yet been purchased by Macromedia.

I have used Silverlight on several Mac/Intel systems and have found it to be great. As a developer of Flash and Java applications I have to say that I have noticed that Silverlight provides much better video streaming as well as including features such as Deep Zoom (check out the Hard Rock Memorbilia web page to see that in action). Furthermore, Silverlight seems to have been designed from the ground up to be a much more secure plug-in. Flash has and continues to be riddled with security issues and updates.

To the users who are concerned about people using VB or C# to express their applications you must understand that these are simply languages. What matters is how the application is implemented using the language.