Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Dec 2005 07:43 UTC, submitted by jonsmirl
"The current Win32-based Windows UI graphics subsystem, found in Windows XP, has been around for nearly 20 years. It's aging and limited, and as a result, user interface development has been somewhat, well, constrained at best. The Windows Presentation Foundation, which is built on the .NET Framework, provides new techniques for developing applications, and makes better use of current hardware and technologies. In this article, we'll show you 10 of the most significant advances that make WPF superior to its Win32 forebears." In related news, here are shots of Vista server.
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2005-12-22
I think windows developers are way to logical... they let the programmers do the UI designs which I think as a regular common windows user, is just plain WRONG, because everithing looks like "Standard".
Also I hate the fact that windows does not support alpha channel in IE6 not to mention the whole OS.
Besides, what's with the colors? I'm not an artist or graphics designer, but those color schemes or they are so color blinding (http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/11/it_was_one...) or so tasteless (http://activewin.com/screenshots/vista/5270serv/Pictures.JPG)
Maybe that's why it took them 20 years to update their graphics engine, I think those 4 eyes programmers are just plain blind. And Steve Jobs was the first one to notice that.