Yahoo have been showing off their next generation Messenger client recently (you can find the video here).

It’s been built specifically for Vista using both the .NET Framework and the full might of WPF working natively under the new OS. As of this month, WPF ceases to be an extension to the Framework and is incorporated into the .NET libraries proper – i.e. it’ll be part of the standard .NET redistributable SDK – along with WCF and (to a lesser extent) WF.

I’m still trying to make my mind up about Windows Vista. The development process is certainly much improved with decent UI/Code seperatation of the sort that web-developers are so used to finally occurring. But does an OS need to be quite so monolithic? It’s certainly pretty, though, there’s no denying that and with the rise of Blend application development is only going to get easier.