No, no they're not. See, I used to think the very same thing. But then, we were migrated to Lotus Notes three weeks ago. Now I love Microsoft, and want to have its babies :C
Is it multi-task-able yet?
I haven't touched it since I left IBM over 3 years ago, and the biggest annoyance for me was that while it was accessing my mail database, it locked up notes and there was nothing else I could do inside it, despite having 5 pages of other databases I used during the day. God help us if the connection was iffy, as it'd lockup for 5 minutes or more, and I couldn't even access the replicated local databases while waiting.
Currently building up a shared WPF controls library and linking to the XAML/CS files from a full-blown WPF application and a Silverlight 3 beta web application. So very impressed by the fact I have a rich client and a web client with exactly the same interface with minimal compromise (ie, watching out for things like CoreCLR doesn't support Label but does support TextBlock etc).
And I've just watched Hackers 2: Operation Takedown. Kevin Mitnick rules.
Are you using ProjectLinker to do that? Comes with the WPF/Silverlight Composite Application Block (aka Prism) 2.0. If you're targeting both platforms, especially using MVVM, then there's a whole bunch of great stuff in there.
I am so impressed with Silverlight 3. Although I need somebody to do the styling for me, because I have the aesthetic sensibilities of an earthworm.
