It all sounds very appetizing, even though most of it flies way above my head...but I like the GUI part
I already tried to update .net from 2.0 to 4.0, it started downloading zillion updates, deleted all the files I had at the root of my C: drive, ended up claiming more than 1GB of hard drive space, and then whined right in the middle that some components couldn't be updated...duh. .net is great for coders, but it's a whole bunch of bloat as far as I can see.