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>- WPF should not be ignored. Markus recently posted on Facebook that he'd had some meetings at Microsoft and WPF was very much alive and very cool new things were happening. He couldn't elaborate due to NDA. But having said that, I'm working on a Winform app right now.
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I saw the FB post. Playing devil's advocate - so what? :)

If I had to list my biggest concerns regarding .NET, one would be the need for a commitment to a more long-term (and clear) roadmap regarding presentation. This is where I've felt all along that MS pretty much got WCF "right" but WPF is a different story. This is certainly not an easy task, but hopefully one they are addressing.

I think the developers who feel a bit jaded by what has happened with Silverlight and their perceptions of what's going on with WPF are probably more interested in a long-term direction than shiny new toys.

When you say, "WPF should not be ignored", my initial reaction is to look at who has been perceived as de-emphasizing it the most. <s>

That's part of why I told Tore to just stick to the (more or less) lowest common denominators like WinForms (and also look at browser support). Until there's a more long-term roadmap, it really only makes sense to look at other technologies if he's explicitly going to need them. So in one sense, I don't think we completely disagree on this - but I have to say that the "I saw cool stuff coming down the pike but can't talk about it due to NDA" should not impress anyone.