quotes about Microsoft
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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 LevieSource : "Why Consumer Style Sells in the Corporate World: 10 Questions With Box Ceo Aaron Levie". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.
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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 -
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
-- Andy Grove -
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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 -
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 unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows
-- Bob Muglia -
Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.
-- Brendan Sullivan -
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There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.
-- Bruce Schneier -
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 PetzoldSource : Charles Petzold (2000). “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, p.147, Microsoft Press
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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 -
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 EinhornSource : "Transcript of David Einhorn's Speech at the Ira Sohn Conference". www.businessinsider.com. June 2, 2011.
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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 PogueSource : "Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better". www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009.
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I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
-- Dennis RitchieSource : "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.
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Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.
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Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.
-- Erik Naggum -
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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 -
If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
-- Jack Ma -
I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.
-- James L. Barksdale -
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 -
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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 -
I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.
-- Jim Allchin -
Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.
-- Jim Cramer -
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 -
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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 -
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 -
I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.
-- Jon Heder -
Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.
-- Ken Kutaragi -
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Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows
-- Lance Ulanoff -
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 -
Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.
-- Larry Ellison -
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
-- Larry Ellison -
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Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
-- Linus TorvaldsSource : Linus Torvalds @Linus__Torvalds, twitter.com. January 29, 2013.
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To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
-- Linus Torvalds -
I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
-- Linus Torvalds -
Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
-- Melinda Gates -
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Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there
-- Miguel de Icaza -
If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.
-- Mitchell Kapor -
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.
-- Naveen Jain -
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Absolutely determined to ensure that Microsoft complies fully with the 2004 anti-trust decision.
-- Neelie Kroes -
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)
-- Niklaus Wirth -
Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.
-- Paul AllenSource : Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.205, Penguin
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We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users.
-- Paul Maritz -
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Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.
-- Paul Saffo -
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.
-- Rebecca MacKinnon -
There's always been a belief that Microsoft would respond punitively if you did something they didn't like. You were afraid of Microsoft's reaction, .. That belief has been pretty much destroyed. Vendors, clients and customers feel pretty much free do whatever they have to do in their Microsoft relationship.
-- Rob Enderle -
I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.
-- Rupert Everett -
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Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
-- Satya Nadella -
Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].
-- Scott McNealy -
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
-- Scott McNealy -
Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.
-- Stephen ManesSource : Source: www.usatoday.com
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Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work.
-- Stephen ManesSource : Source: www.usatoday.com
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The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.
-- Steve Ballmer -
At Microsoft, we're investing heavily in security because we want customers to be able to trust their computing experiences, so they can realize the full benefits of the interconnected world we live in.
-- Steve Ballmer -
I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.
-- Steve Ballmer -
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When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.
-- Steve Jurvetson -
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly
-- Steve Wozniak -
Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.
-- Theo de RaadtSource : "Is Linux For Losers?" by Daniel Lyons, www.forbes.com. June 16, 2005.
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Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease,
-- Walter Bender -
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Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators."
-- Andy Ihnatko -
It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?
-- Chris DiBona -
With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.
-- Nancy Tellem -
You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.
-- Paul Thurrott -
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Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.
-- Ross Levinsohn -
I curse Microsoft at least once a day. I only curse Apple every other day. As I see it, that's a 100 percent improvement.
-- Sam Kass -
I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
-- Tim O'Reilly -
I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
-- Tim O'Reilly -
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There was nothing in the deal with Justice that would change Microsoft's business practices in any way.
-- Tom Reilly -
There are people who don`t like women holding power.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
Microsoft has changed the way people think about computers.
-- Arfa KarimSource : Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com
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Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users.
-- Arfa KarimSource : Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com
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I've passion for software, and Microsoft provide me a true platform.
-- Arfa KarimSource : Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com
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Microsoft develops a lot of software that allows people to realize their potential.
-- Arfa KarimSource : Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com
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Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.
-- Craig MundieSource : "A Tip of the Black Hat From MS" by Farhad Manjoo, www.wired.com. July 27, 2001.
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Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.
-- David Shenk -
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MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.
-- Donald Clark -
So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable version of its own software. Which of course provides quite a powerful incentive for me to spend up to £99.99 on upgrading to Microsoft Outlook 2007 - except that in my current mood, I'd rather stick pins in my eyes.
-- Robert Peston -
On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.
-- Jean-Louis Gassee -
Microsoft is still not a black belt.
-- Ken KutaragiSource : "Next-gen leaders talk about their consoles". Interview with Asahi Shinbun, www.gamespot.com. May 31, 2005.
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I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
-- Ken ThompsonSource : "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.