Quotes and Sayings About Microsoft

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
-- Aaron Levie

#Thinking #Focus #Microsoft

There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.
-- Adam Hartung

#Innovation #Reorganization #Microsoft

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
-- Anatoly Chubais

#Russia #People #Microsoft

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
-- Andy Grove

#Business #Luck #Microsoft

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.
-- Bill Gates

#Successful #Microsoft #Committed

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.
-- Bill Gates

#Microsoft #Exam #Owners

Microsoft unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows
-- Bob Muglia

#Microsoft #Window

Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.
-- Brendan Sullivan

#Honor #Microsoft #Fruit

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Excellence #Microsoft #Flight

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation
-- Charles Petzold

#Memories #Corporations #Microsoft

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Names #Space #Microsoft

Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.
-- David Einhorn

#Challenges #Needs #Microsoft

For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.
-- David Pogue

#Years #Waiting #Microsoft

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
-- Dennis Ritchie

#Microsoft #Java #Want

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.
-- Eric S. Raymond

#Microsoft #Problem #Symptoms

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.
-- Erik Naggum

#Technology #Microsoft #Answers

The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.
-- Hugh S. Johnson

#Amazon #Microsoft #Earning

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
-- Jack Ma

#Regret #Walmart #Microsoft

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.
-- James L. Barksdale

#Thinking #Groups #Microsoft

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.
-- Jeremy Rifkin

#Microsoft #Tests #Information

Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours.... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.
-- Jerry Pournelle

#Messages #Firsts #Microsoft

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.
-- Jim Allchin

#Microsoft #Today #Macs

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.
-- Jim Cramer

#Microsoft #Strange #Mysterious

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.
-- Jimmy Wales

#Apples #Microsoft #World

Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.
-- Joel Spolsky

#Mean #Microsoft #Normal

Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodile in the world is Microsoft, and everybody is busy sucking up to it.
-- John Naughton

#Nice #Lasts #Microsoft

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.
-- Jon Heder

#Microsoft #Bills #Slap

Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.
-- Ken Kutaragi

#Moon #Microsoft #Sun

Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows
-- Lance Ulanoff

#Microsoft #Window #Vulnerable

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
-- Larry Ellison

#Innovation #Microsoft #Pieces