Silverlight 2 beta 2 coming this week
At TechEd today Bill Gates said that the second beta of Silverlight 2 will be available for download at the end of the week with a Go Live license. The Go Live license is similar to the one that was used late in the beta process for Silverlight 1 and it allows developers to roll out applications to production but with limited support from Microsoft.
At TechEd S. Somasegar demoed the beta 2 of Silverlight with a social networking application called Crossfader which can be used to share things like photos and music. According to Joe Wilcox, Somasegar focused on the the workflow between Silverlight and WPF as well as the benefits of XAML and using Visual Studio and Expression Studio.