Microsoft Quotes

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Facebook collects a lot of data from people and admits it. And it also collects data which isn't admitted. And Google does too. As for Microsoft, I don't know. But I do know that Windows has features that send data about the user.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

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.

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

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.

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

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

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

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

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

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.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

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

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.