Everybody and your dog knows that microsoft tried to rerelease ActiveX with a cool name and trying to play again the .NET card over it to make it look less stale. Miguel obviously got another dose of crack^W^W^W of optimism and tried to find something good in something that should be shot on start, well, restart.
He said that Silverlight will be something useful and 1/5 sites will use it in few years. Well I have lots of fun with standard tecnologies: javascript, SVG, HTML5 and so on…
Now, if you want richer applications there is something that binds everything together it’s called XUL, works EVERYWHERE (hi, minimo) it’s quite documented, mature, has an opensource implementation and a compact runtime (xulrunner).
and Oh, btw it has already more than the 1/10 of the market share and is steadly growing…
Now if we got a standard multimedia framework (maybe based on RTP, RTSP, codecs like Dirac, snow or vorbis) in the mix I think we are completely done, isn’t it?