Paul Colton Developers Quotations

The announcement is a lot about messaging and a lot about focus, ... We said, 'Let's align ourselves more closely with the release schedule of Microsoft and not force developers into something they don't want to use right now.

Xamlon Web allows developers to be immediately productive in new deployment scenarios with virtually no learning curve, ... Now developers can use the programming languages they already know to create seamless business applications that deploy via the Web on practically any device or computer in the world.

We're trying to tell developers there's one unified way of building applications, ... We'll manage the process of deploying to AJAX, Flash or some future platform, so developers don't need to keep figuring out how to apply their skills to the next new thing.

There's some conflict there -- on the one hand, you have Atlas for doing cross-platform Windows applications. On the other, you have Windows Presentation Foundation to keep developers on the (Windows) platform, ... It's not clear for developers, but I think the market will drive it more than Microsoft.

There's some conflict there on the one hand, you have Atlas for doing cross-platform Windows applications. On the other, you have Windows Presentation Foundation to keep developers on the (Windows) platform. It's not clear for developers, but I think the market will drive it more than Microsoft.