WPF app - Yahoo Messenger looks amazing

With Vista general availability under 3 weeks away, there are more and more companies jumping on the WPF and great user experience bus. Yahoo has just announced its new Messenger applicatin which takes advantage of the .NET Fx 3 and more importantly WPF. The video demo and screenshot show what you can do:

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It looks like the designers and devs over at Frog design were in on the action. Very cool. David Shadle recently visited them and stuck it up on10 - Frog Design extreme WPF/e makeover

My good friend Corey has an interesting take on it - he's never one to mince his words. Let's hope we'll so much more of this kind of stuff coming from the Live team in the next few months, maybe at Mix?

 

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