I have found WPF to be much harder to master, but far more secure code wise. Following the MVVM pattern and using Galasoft MVVM Light toolkit was a huge help to me. When your code can't have bugs it's much easier to maintain. But I also see a lot more room for making sure you comment it well. With so much code in the ViewModel it is important to me to region it and comment it.

Running a Sony Vaio from the "Windows Selection" when Windows 7 first came out. My laptop has a RAID 0 setup with 2 256GB SSD's. Side by side with every other developer in my company (3) my code compiles 10x faster. My machine boot up is right at or slightly over 7 seconds. There is absolutely nothing faster I have seen in a laptop, and I've got 3 of the same model Sony's, the other 2 are average at best running 7200 rpm (non Raid) drives. I've run these for about 6 months now, 0 problems, 0 trouble, -1 wait time. V