We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users.
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.
Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there
Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.
Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.
I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.
Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.
Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.
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.
I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.
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.
MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.
Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free
I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.
(In response to Java) Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.
We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and 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.
