Guidance toward the-one-true-path.

Paul Colton wrote an interesting article for Byte about XAML. Once sentence in the article was a real attention grabber:

XAML has many strengths, and Microsoft's ability to educate the marketplace and guide the .NET developer community may ultimately tip the balance to XAML.

Wow. I'm *SO* glad Microsoft is willing and able to educate and guide me. ;->