Following Adobe’s recent announcement to open source most part of their Flex technology Microsoft also announced to support the open source community .

Today Microsoft revealed another major aspect of Silverlight: Not only will the technology be a great media platform it will also be cross-platform .NET. Scott Guthrie, running Microsoft’s engineering unit in charge of Silverlight published a great video on Channel 9 explaining the ins and outs of Silverlight for Devs.

Those of you wanting to really go deep will very likely enjoy these screencasts as a point to start with.