New features in Silverlight 5 (beta was announced to be released on the 1st half of 2011)

On December 2, 2010 at the Silverlight Firestarter event, Silverlight 5 beta
was announced to be released on the 1st half of 2011.

The final release is planned for the end of 2011

New features in Silverlight 5 include:

* Supports GPU accelerated video decoding
* Built in 3D graphics support (not to be confused with stereoscopic 3D)
* Variable speed playback of media content with automatic audio pitch correction.
* Improved power awareness
* Provides 64-bit browser support
* Automated UI testing support for applications with Visual Studio 2010
* Delivers improved text clarity
* Developers can now debug data-binding expressions, set breakpoints on bindings.
* Built in Remote-control support
* Supports faster application startup