Microsoft Quotes

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.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

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.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

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