Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

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.

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

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

The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today.

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