"We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight"

Aug 04, 2008, 12:00 (4 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Andreas Proschofsky)

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"de Icaza: Yes, definitely. They have been talking about opening up and improving interoperability since February, and in March at the Mix-conference you really could see them talking a lot more about engaging with the community, open specs and process. And I was just there a couple of weeks ago for another of our regular meetings and I had the chance to not only talk to the top management but to actual engineers and developers. And what was interesting: The really got the message. I don't know if it was an internal message or if they are asking people to think in that way but in the last six months there has been a significant amount of change inside Microsoft."

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