The document discusses how SharePoint and Silverlight can bring the best of both worlds together by empowering information workers to better collaborate. It references a recent Bill Gates speech about how advances in software and computing over the next decade will permeate all facets of life and how information workers are not yet empowered to collaborate as they should. The document also discusses trends in systems evolution from mainframes to client-server to web-based systems and rich interactive applications, and highlights software as a service and rich interactive applications as current trends.