About Miguel de Icaza: Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican-born American programmer, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.
Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.
We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate.
After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.
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.