Re: Is there any hope for Microsoft ?

From: "Rick Beerendonk" <firstname@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:35:39 +0100

Winforms 1.1 dead
Winforms 2.0 ???

Dead. I thought there were signals from Microsoft that there won't be much
innovation left on Winforms. WPF is the UI platform of the future. And
yes... people with current or older computers (low memory video card) might
complain about WPF performance as well.

Rick

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References:
- Is there any hope for Microsoft ?
  - From: David Champion
- Re: Is there any hope for Microsoft ?
  - From: Chad Z. Hower
- Re: Is there any hope for Microsoft ?
  - From: Fritz Huber

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