What are Smart Clients

This is once again something very innovative from Microsoft Smart Clients, a very new concept providing you the ease of both thin and thick client, while consuming services from Web Services. According to Microsoft Smart clients are easily deployed and managed client applications that provide an adaptive, responsive and rich interactive experience by leveraging local resources and intelligently connecting to distributed data sources. A smart client application combines the following ingredients to provide a responsive, rich, and compelling experience to its end users. Smart Client Ingredients Local resources and user experience Connected Offline capable Intelligent deployment and update For more details , http://msdn.microsoft.com/smartclient/understanding/definition/default.aspx