I am not an MS evangelist, but I am excited about the potential for Silverlight 4.0 to knock-down the boundaries of cross-platform development. Additionally, having to deal with "spotty" coverage and "sometimes connected" clients have made the browser-based solution a "nice-idea" but unrealistic for most of our endeavours. Having just gone to Orlando CodeCamp 2010, and seeing that Mobile 7 really is trending in the Silverlight direction - plus the fact that a Silverlight application can run the same "in-the-browser" as well as a "standalone" application. Yes, I know. Those features were there in 3.0, but without any serious data-binding, lack of ICommand support, printing, trust conditions etc. it really didn't make any sense, to me anyway. Will spend most of my "free-time" looking into this platform.
PDC 2009
http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-11?type=wmvhigh
Resources
http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4/#getting-started
http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Five-Silverlight-4.0-features-you-cannot-do-without.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2009/12/24/custom-content-loaders-in-silverlight-4-0.aspx
Update (It's not all ponies & rainbows!)
http://stevesmithblog.com/blog/untrusted-projects-and-blocked-files-in-visual-studio/
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