I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.

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.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

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

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 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