Windows Presentation Foundation: The New Face of Windows Vista

More than anything else, Windows stands or falls by its graphical user interface (GUI) -- which, with the advent of animation, video, audio, and other refinements, is rapidly turning into a multimedia user interface. That is why, ever since Windows 1.0, Microsoft has made the quality of the "user experience" a high priority. In fact, it could be argued that the rationale for Windows itself rested on the perceived superiority of a GUI -- even the slow, clunky, unreliable Windows GUI of 1986 -- over the simple but "low-tech" character-based screens of DOS.

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