The ink has barely dried on Silverlight 2 since its release in October 2008 as predictions of what will be included in Silverlight 3 are starting to trickle out. Bart Czernicki has started an interesting set of posts that discusses what we know about SIlverlight from Scott Guthrie’s posts as well as some of Bart’s predictions of what is to come. Bart has some interesting thoughts based on what we have seen so far and viewing the pattern that seems to have developed the past few years from Microsoft by releasing major Silverlight news at the Mix conferences, generally held in March. At Mix in March 2007 Silverlight 1 played a major role and in March 2008’s Mix conference Silverlight 2 was on display in force. Bart theorizes that in March 2009’s Mix conference that Silverlight 3 (as a alpha, beta or CTP) will peek its head out into the public eye along with Silverlight for Mobile devices. Bart makes it clear that he is guessing of course since none of us outside of the internal Silverlight teams know what they have in store … but his predictions are great food for thought. Definitely check out his posts.

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