To be released next year, Silverlight 3 will get major improvements in media and graphics. It is going to get 3D support and GPU hardware acceleration. 3D games and applications will simply run on the web, how cool is that? Maybe, just maybe, Web 3.0 would go three dimensions in mainstream because of Silverlight. Liden Lab would create Second Life Web Edition using Silverlight. Or maybe I'm letting my imagination run wild with all these web-based 3D social networking and web browsing.
Besides 3D, Silverlight is going to play H.264 video and include a zillion of new controls. But this is not it. It is still too early to tell whether Silverlight 3 will come with a free lunch or not. Scott Guthrie hinted that Silverlight team has surprises in store for you. So stay tuned.