13 Quotes by Paul Colton

We tried doubling him but it didn't work. Sometimes he just made a shot with a kid's hand in his face. That was big for them.

Mainly we learned that developers, much as they love all the new technology out there like XAML and Avalon, ... they want to build Internet applications with technology they understand today.

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.

We were a little more athletic than they were, and we just tried to take advantage of it. That (athleticism) gave us some easy baskets, and we were kind of struggling in our offensive sets.

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.

We had a 5-point lead, and then we started turning the ball over. Every time we turned it over, they scored. That changed the momentum. You could see it on our faces and their faces.

When we lost our advantage, we lost the game.

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.