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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.


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CHARLES CALEB COLTON The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Hu...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its maz...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
True friendship is like sound health;...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON