A plea to Microsoft....

I realize that when I post, they end up long.  I apologize, and I'm sure everyone is sick of hearing from me but I have to make one plea to Microsoft. 

Please don't apologize for adding 'cool' UI, etc into Vista.  In fact, I want you to do the exact opposite.  I want you to take advantage of the awesome technologies you've built into Vista and really make people go "Wow."  How?  By using WPF in your applications.

WPF is another looked over feature that most end users don't know about.  Why?  Simply because no one has implemented the power of WPF in any of their applications.  Most disappointing of all is that Microsoft themselves haven't used it in any of their mainstream applications, at least that I know of.  (If someone has found some, please reply to this post as I would love to know!)  WPF, or Windows Presentation Foundation is essentially a 3D accelerated programming architecture allowing you to provide amazing interfaces in your applications.  The kind of cool interfaces that you see in movies or in video games are not only possible, but very feasible using WPF.  Yet Microsoft, you haven't used this power in any of your applications.  Even Live Messenger doesn't have it, which I would have thought would be the first app to get a WPF face lift.  How can you expect other vendors to use this framework when you yourselves aren't using it.  I think even the Office suite would benefit greatly from a WPF interface.  I know for a fact that both Outlook and PowerPoint would be fantastic with a WPF GUI. 

Apple gets all this credit for 'cool' interfaces.  With WPF, you have the power to make Apple's interfaces look about as cool as an 80 year old man in a diaper.

So, my plea to Microsoft is, take off the gloves.  Start with some beta versions of low impact applications like Live Messenger, Live Mail, and other applications.  Give them a beautiful intuitive and powerful WPF interface.  Show the world what cool really is and send Apple scrambling to try and create their own version of WPF, and by the time they get it, release WPF 2.  Apple has crossed the line with their ads, take off the gloves and show them what Microsoft can really do!