I like controls. Some people would say I’m a control hoarder. I love having and using controls from Infragistics, Telerik and ComponentArt for example.

They all publish the same controls. Treeview, grid, listview, fancy buttons, etc.

With XAML and WPF taking over the ecosystem, why do they write the same controls again? How come we have 90 thousand carousel controls. Can no one think of anything new? Microsoft Surface is a really cool UI. It does have buttons and lists. But maybe making a panel control that is resizable with multi-touch would make more sense than another carousel control.

I had the opportunity to check Microsoft Surface out at the Rio hotel and casino. It was awesome! I can’t wait until we get an OS that supports multi-touch. It will definitely change the way we look at user interfaces.