Seems fewer and fewer developers are jumping aboard the Vista development bandwagon:
“You can’t write an enterprise app like a demo. It’d be all soft and weak under the hood,” he said. “We’d never put all that stuff in because it couldn’t support 100 concurrent users.”
The article goes back and forth on the “it’s too soon to tell” and “it’s doomed! Doomed I tells ya!” tip. Personally, I’m sticking to the latter.
WPF/XAML remains less-than great technology. The amount of work needed to make it great is high, and in the mean time more and more developers are migrating business applications (Microsoft’s development bread-and-butter) to web applications. Without serious improvements in the developer tools and the framework itself, it’s doomed to die a slow death.
Now if Apple would just get off their ass and bring back the YellowBox…