A news to inform the community of Linux that Novell announced the official release of Moonlight 2.0, an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems.
 
Well, it's at approximately a month after Microsoft released the first testing preview of Silverlight 4 that Moonlight 2.0 has been made available for download ! A new version 100 % compatible with Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 and which contains some features from Silverlight 3.0.

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I'm happy that there are people working on software like this. But perhaps it would have been better if Microsoft would've made their software cross-platform themselves..?

Microsoft devs are probably heavily involved in Moonlight, as Microsoft and Novell have somekind of an agreement. (http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/)