Microsoft has finally released their new version of Silverlight, Silverlight 3.  All the dev tools are now available here:  http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ .

However, if you want to develop on a Mac, you  will need to use something like Eclipse4SL, which, when we tested it a few months back, was stil la bit buggy.  However, it’s worth trying again.

One of the most interesting new features of Silverlight 3 is support for 3D planes and BitMap caching.  It still seems like they are still playing catch-up to Flash though.  If they really wanted to make splash, why not leap-frog Adobe instaed of looking like an also-ran?.