Re: It's time...
"It'll be interesting to see just how much of MS's software uses .Net and could now become cross platform, just like that."
IIRC, a lot of MS's stuff has used .NET Framework for years. I know SQL Server has for a while ...
I don't think that the WPF component works outside of Windows, though - I seem to remember reading on a MS blog post that that was the case, due to dependencies on DirectX.