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After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.

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.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.