Some people actually run their apps on Mono on Windows. Miguel de Icaza "They want open source and sharing and that kind of commie stuff" Progression WPF/E at PDC: Cute WPF/E at Mix06: Still cute Silverlight 1.1at Mix07: Awesome "There was no conspiracy between Microsoft and Novell to destroy the web" :) Prototype implemented in 3 weeks, demoed at Remix07 France Microsoft is opening up open source efforts in the company (DLR...) opening up formats and protocols Novell to deliver a 100% compatible Moonlight and to support it on all major Linux distributions/platforms Microsoft to do the Media pack, regression test suites and complete specs This is an open source project so people can contribute if an implementation is not available for a given platform Based on Microsoft DLR (IronPython and IronRuby) Also run C# code on Mono Demo of the Halo3 trailer on a Linux box NB: Current version cannot display media Desklet application runs XAML (and code behind?) on the desktop. "I am thirsty and Read More...