Craig Mundie Quotes

United States, Chief Executive Officer
July 1, 1949

Craig James Mundie (born July 1, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio) is Senior Advisor to the CEO at Microsoft and its former Chief Research and Strategy Officer. He started in the consumer platforms division in 1992, managing the production of Windows CE for hand-held and automotive systems and early console games. In 1997, Mundie oversaw the acquisition of WebTV Networks. He has championed Microsoft Trustworthy Computing and digital rights management.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Craig Mundie
- Business
- Data
- Material
India produces a lot of engineers. But the production of computer science engineers is low, pro rata. Computer engineers are more into theory and less in managing businesses, building businesses or writing source codes, the key to software development.

Craig Mundie
- Writing
- Science
- Computer

Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.

Craig Mundie
- Source
- Microsoft
- Beef
We are choosing to invest in health now for a variety of reasons. Advances in technology hold huge promise for changing people's lives globally -- both those who are sick and those who are well. Peter Neupert brings a mix of business leadership and expertise in the health field to guide Microsoft's work in this area.

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- People
- Work
- Business
But it is always a challenge to commercialize those inventions.

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There's a critical need to attract the best people in the world.

Craig Mundie
- People
- World
If they slide too far, they'll find themselves in the same situation as the Xbox did when they launched the PS2 a year before we entered. That's a hill to climb.

Craig Mundie
- Situation
- Climb
- Hill
As we've learned ? or really re-learned ? one can't build a business or our economic future on that type of flimsy foundation.

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I love what Nick is trying to do. We have a lot of concerns about the sustainability of his approach.

Craig Mundie
- Trying
- Approach
- Concerns
We think the big deal here is to give a lot more people access to a level of computation that was not available before.

Craig Mundie
- People
- Deal
- Computation
Microsoft has no beef with open source, ... We happen to like and will continue to pursue commercial software as a business model Microsoft believes in. Ultimately, the market will tell us if that choice is a good one.

Craig Mundie
- Good
- Business
- Model
We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

Craig Mundie
- Believe
- Innovation
The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.

Craig Mundie
- Hope
- Free
- Prayer
I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Craig Mundie
- World
- Innovation