This is pretty interesting news. Finally, Silverlight is about to get nearer on SharePoint way.  Basically, it is going to replace the classic SharePoint Document Library UI for the first time. Not only that, it is going add some other cool features like dynamic Folder view, Web Part display, video streaming, etc… Anyway, this is not a part of “SharePoint 14”, but according the news source, it will be available soon.

Courtesy: http://blogs.msdn.com/ales/

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1. Eagle 1
2. Surface
3. Pictionaire
4. Touch Wall
5. Paris/Social Streams
6. LucidTouch
7. OSLO
8. Visual Studio 2010
9. BlueTrack
10. Robotic Receptionist 

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