Will mdi applications die?

Question

I'm just curoius,

Has mdi applications a bright future ?

Edit: I mean mdi applications = free floating child windows (thanks to Guffa) not tabbed-interface application.

Answer 1

MDI is marked to die. MS is evangelizing against it from some time now, and they do not include it in WPF. Their apps stop using it long time ago (with the exception of Excel, but I bet that they do that for legacy compatibility).

Enough that you have to deal with windows management on the OS.

The future is Tabbed and Docked.