Windows Live Mail Desktop beta

Windows Vista beta 2 is out the door and third party apps that take advantage of its new platform technologies are starting to appear. In this video Charles and Jason drop in on three ISVs (iBloks, Dot Net Solutions, and Areva) over in the building 20 developer lab to see demos of what they are building and talk about their experience building applications for Windows Vista.
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This is great stuff.
Personally, I have been frustrated for years with form based presentation layers. Graphic artists are too expensive, so this provides a nice segway into developing some really cool "eye candy" application, which also provides an opportunity for great features
to the end user.
Some of the old guys around will argue all day long that test based UI's are the most efficient, and up to this point I would agree. I think we are starting to see a shift where you can have really cool UI's, with tons of functionality.
YES, Windows has now implemented some of the futures you can use with linux since some time now.
I Have downloadet the Beta it looks really nice but the Hardware requirements a a little bit to high, the 3d GLX Desktop environemnt for linux does the same with much less resources:D.