In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.Miguel de Icaza
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Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.
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All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
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It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
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Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.
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With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
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Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.
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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.
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