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

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.
Miguel de Icaza

All of our code is open source, so it can be used for other projects.
Miguel de Icaza

It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET.
Miguel de Icaza

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

Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.
Miguel de Icaza

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.
Miguel de Icaza