Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

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.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

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

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.