Microsoft Quotes - Page 5

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.

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.

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.

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.

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed how Microsoft's 'Falconview' software would enable the destruction of bridges in Kosovo.

You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

Absolutely determined to ensure that Microsoft complies fully with the 2004 anti-trust decision.

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

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.

With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.

If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.

[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what.

Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.

Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows

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

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.

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

On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.

They said these North Korean missiles had enough range to hit Seattle, but residents in Seattle were not worried. Today Bill Gates said Microsoft has enough missiles to destroy North Korea ten times over.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.