Microsoft Quotes

There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'

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

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.

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

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.

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

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

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

There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

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

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

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

Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users.

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

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)

(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.

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

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.

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

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.

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

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

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

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.

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.

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

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

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

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 certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

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

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users.

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

Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

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

Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.