So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there

There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.