Microsoft Quotes

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.

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

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?

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

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

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

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.

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

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

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

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.

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

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

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.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

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

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

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates.

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

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.