Not To Go Too Far, But Microsoft

We Could Refresh The Look And Feel Of The Entire Desktop.

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.

There Is A Point In Your Life When You Realize That You Have Written Enough Destructors.

The Software Patent Problem Is Not Limited To Mono. Software Patents Affect Everyone Writing Software Today.

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.