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[Kilmatead]

Think I'll check out the VS2010 trial and see what the fuss is about.  As Win7 is WPF-included, it's probably not that significant.

[Tuxman]

Yeah, no, my mistake... I meant to say DirectX.

Designed to remove dependencies on the aging GDI subsystem, WPF is built on DirectX, which provides hardware acceleration

So DirectX is intended to compensate the performance decrease caused by the .net framework? That's ridiculous.

[Kilmatead]

So DirectX is intended to compensate the performance decrease caused by the .net framework? That's ridiculous.

That's always been MS' philosophy, sort of a "if you build it, they will come" approach that says progressive-hardware will always compensate for the shortcomings of software.

They only backtrack on that if massive numbers of people reject their current implementation.  Witness Vista (hardware) >> Win7 (hardware).

People often forget that while Gates is presented as the "Father of Windows", back in the 70's and '80's he was first and foremost a hardware enthusiast.  He's never lost that ideal, and MS is imbued with it.  One of the few software companies that is, much like Adobe.

Most others take the logical approach of optimization focus - though a lot of that even relies on the latest variations of (industry professional grade) Intel Compiler optimizations - but again, what are Intel?  Hardware enthusiasts.

Gates would see optimization as "backwards looking" - unless he's at a shareholder's meeting, in which case he's all "rah rah".

[Tuxman]

That's why I prefer working solutions to the latest "next big thing".