It looks like Microsoft has already started hitting partners hard to deliver visually appealing user interfaces so that the new eye-candy features in products like Vista and WPF can be fully exploited. Assuming the push to renew a focus on UI is successful, products will start to compete not only on functionality, but look and feel as well. Apple understood this and mastered it years ago (which is why Mac users are almost religious in their loyalty) and Microsoft is just now catching up.
At any rate, the tagline "Good user experience is now common in the consumer space, and it's the next domain of differentiation in the enterprise." struck a nerve so I thought I'd share.
How do you get .NET developers to learn to design flashy UIs? You don't.
Nirvana? We'll see but those new UIs sure look HOT.