As many of you probably already know, Silverlight 2 was released in the wee hours of the morning (3AM EST or 12AM Microsoft-time). We've noticed some inconsistencies with the upgrade process from Silverlight 2 Beta 2 to the Silverlight Release, so I figured I would share our findings with you here.

It looks like there was an issue with the Silverlight Auto-Updater in Silverlight Beta 2, so a Windows Update was pushed this morning to rectify the auto-updater. The windows update pertains to Microsoft Support article KB955011.

As a result, users who didn't install the Windows Update yet were prompted with what I call a "not-so-intuitive" upgrade process for Silverlight 2. They basically have the same experience as users who don't have Silverlight at all:

Those who did install the Windows Update will see what I call the "More-intuitive" image:

So to accommodate for those users who didn't install the update, we've created our own custom image that explains why Silverlight has to be updated:

So now everything should be as smooth as we can expect it to be.