The nay-sayers will disagree that Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is simple but I don’t see that anyone will deny that you can produce very pretty and different applications using WPF. Just look at some of the examples Microsoft produced as a showcase – Max for example (unfortunately, discontinued) – and you’ll know what I mean.

There is a downside to this though and an unexpected one  First some examples of the existing applications in use today… Here’s a link to Anandtech’s recent mainboard review. Mainboards?!? Yes, bear with me. Go to any page with the features of any of the mainboards and take a look at how hideous are some of the utilities that mainboard makers deliver with the board.

Biostar’s utility is particularly ugly, but they are all kitsch. I don’t know if it’s a cultural thing so I just don’t get it, or is it the fact that programmers were designing user interfaces , but man are they all hard on the eyes.

Now, considering how easy it is to build crap UI like this using WPF, I shudder to think what we’re about to get in the future