Mainly because we get a desktop application for free, and partially because we can deliver a next-generation experience compared to existing browser apps. As far as liking it? Haven't written a line of code yet, but I love working with WPF and supposedly Silverlight is the same thing. We're waiting at least another month for the third party tools market to catch up with the current Beta release.
"Mainly because we get a desktop application for free, and partially because we can deliver a next-generation experience compared to existing browser apps."
Silverlight is a subset of WPF so we should be able to compile it as an EXE, put a different template and tabstrip on it, and have something that looks like a Microsoft Office 2007 app. I don't know any way to do that with Java.
