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Silverlight was released for Mac and Windows yesterday, as planned. The kicker is Microsoft plans on supporting and assisting in the development of Moonlight, the Mono-based implementation. Ars spoke to Miguel de Icaza – head on over for a good read.

In case you haven’t heard and are asking, “What is Silverlight?” – think Adobe Flash and Flex. If that doesn’t help, here’s the cut and paste:

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plugin for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports JavaScript, .NET, and other languages.