2007.11.29. Attended the Silverlight 1.0 Firestarter in Redmond. The biggest news to me was an off the cuff comment by one of the presenters that the Silverlight 2.0 download size would "be about 4MB". He also presented a roadmap slide taken from WPF showing 3D as a feature, but wouldn't commit to its availability in Silverlight 2.0. Mix08 was the implied release venue.
Overall, the event seemed a bit subdued. The conference room was only about 1/2 full, the audience and presenters not too enthusiastic. I couldn't tell if this was due to the realization that the javascript based Silverlight 1.0 is soon to be upstaged by c#/DLR/CLR Silverlight 2.0, or if people were just skeptical of Microsoft's strategy overall.
The popfly demos were the coolest (we're already getting weary of orbiting images which seem to be central to most other current Silverlight demos). I hadn't realized previously that a mashup block can have multiple inputs and multiple outputs. www.popfly.com
Another favorite example is this Vista simulator:
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