Microsoft Quotes

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.

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

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.

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

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

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

I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Microsoft has changed the way people think about computers.

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better.

The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.

Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.

Microsoft is still not a black belt.

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.

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 develops a lot of software that allows people to realize their potential.

I've passion for software, and Microsoft provide me a true platform.

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

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

The Internet? We are not interested in it

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

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

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.

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

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.'

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

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

I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.

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.