>Well, lets see. For 25 years I have been writing business apps using Windows development tools. Not one customer EVER has brought up the way my apps look. They might change a few asthetic things like a font size or move a button. But no one has ever said to me, "You're applications look terrible compared to this one over here". They're concerned with how it works, not how it looks.
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That's becuase all that was available was battleship gray winforms app s that all looked alike. Most corporate types now have a choice and the choice to more flexibility in the styling and look of the program; i'm betting you'll find them asking for more of the design features as we go forward.