The day started with Ray Ozzy (Chef Software Archichtect) and his friends launching Silverlight, Microsoft's alternative for flash.
If you want know all about Silverlight, there's loads of info online.
http://www.silverlight.net
What remember is that it's cross browser/cross platform from day one. Proof is that I installed the plugin for Firefox on my Mac during the speech and it works seamlessly. Although I must say the install process is a bit too complicated (download, extract, install, restart browser).
Second is the attention they give to video. Extremely high quality streaming (up to HD), watching video sync-ed with friends over the web and chatting about it, uploading user generated movies (out of the box), etc. Looks like a strong competitor for Flash media server.
Go download the plugin (beta):
http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/downloads.aspx
Check out some demo's (although they do not seem to work, maybe due to low bandwidth in the room here):
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx (works, but not really spectacular)
http://silverlight.net/fox/ (THIS ONE YOU WANT TO SEE)
http://silverlight.net/showcase/Default.aspx (doesn't work)
http://ds.pilot.serving-sys.com/BurstingRes/WPFE/msn_tech.html (doesn't work)
