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

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

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

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

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.

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