I have seen the future of desktop applications. I am very excited. However I have to remind myself that , like the iPhone (which I don’t own) now all software in the same range is the same.

So you might have heard of twitter, its this crazy funky re-emergence of the SMS , but instead of sending incomprehensible short messages to friends and hot members of the opposite sex, we can do it online. To loads of people , and their dog, apparently.

So I always found twitter something of an annoyance to visit as a web-site, but as a desktop application , its neat enough , as long as people stop mining my tweets and friends so I will follow their rubbish…. anyway I digress, I will pass some more comments on this when the time is right.

I'm a fan of Windows Vista/7 so it was great to hear a podcast about a WPF application for twitter from Hanselminutes.So I grabbed it from here and installed on my machine, its got a great web installer, a feature of .NET , have not seen any application use this installer ever, its very very sweet.

It Just looks fantastic, lots of transparency , animations, sliding effects, fantastic layout.

It will also automatically shorten the URL you paste into a tweet in a slick animated fashion.

Problems are it is the one size at all times ! You cannot re-size the application. Buts its such a small problem , its just do cool, and memory eating , and flamboyant , you have to try it.

So really we are on your way with WPF, I wonder are we going to come from here to this …

Microsoft Labs seem to think so , this is a very good selling point for Microsoft's Software+Services approach. As long as we get WPF based interfaces, I'm tired of the same old app interfaces, this is why I actually loved the office 2007 interface. Its why I like the iPhone interface. And I am looking forward to multitouch in windows 7. Not so I can smudge every screen I own, but its more the idea that I will get a fantastic interface like the above in my lifetime.