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We don't really have many developer-focused conferences here in Budapest, so even though I'm more of a Java/Ruby/Open Source guy, I was really psyched to visit the Microsoft REMix'07 conference.

Not only I had a good time at the main event, I was lucky enough to have an open discussion with one of the key .NET guys at Microsoft, Scott Guthrie. The focus of the conference as well as our discussion was the recently unleashed Silverlight browser plug-in from Microsoft.

I've recorded about an hour's worth of a really interesting, engaging discussion with Scott, who is the GM for the Developer Division at Microsoft, Beau Ambur from Metaliq, and Pete LePage, a Microsoft Product Manager for Internet Explorer.

Although I did not have the chance to unpack and build up my "proper" audio recording kit, I think the recorded audio is good enough, I'd recommend anyone interested in Web technologies to have a listen.

Here's Part 1 of the discussion, where we're talking about:

• Scott's blogging habit, cats, wives
• Silverlight - is it a replacement for HTML?
• Why would I select Silverlight vs. Flash
• Silverlight 1.0 as a media platform, what's coming up in 1.1
• LINQ as a query API, is it "The One" data access API?

As time permits, in the next few days I'm going to edit the other 2 or so segments and make it available here. You can subscribe to my podcast feed at feeds.feedburner.com/tentimes to get the other segments automatically.