Eric Rudder Quotations

Ultimately this is about enabling mainstream adoption of user experience within both business and end-user applications, resulting in richer differentiated experiences on the web and the smart client that promote business opportunity and productivity

I expect the .NET Framework to start showing up on more and more devices as time goes on.

Our goal is to redefine what is considered a 'good enough' user experience today through integrated development and design capability,

We're overburdened, as developers, adding features to applications.

So the opportunity to add value with services--not necessarily replacing the server, but complementary value streams--is quite significant, and I think you'll see us first grow in that area with Exchange, ... But we're looking at how to complement hosted services to all of the server businesses.

As people try to build their Web services, I think tools are going to make the difference.

There's a lot of great stuff in there.

The .NET Framework is the core of everything we do.