Microsoft Quotes
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There is rapid innovation. It is absolutely a market that is dynamic. It is driving companies, including Microsoft, to do better and better work.
Larry Cohen -
Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.
Bill Gates
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
Larry Ellison -
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
Warren Buffett -
Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
Satya Nadella -
We are at the point where all the obvious things we tell Microsoft to do, they already do it.
Dan Kaminsky -
Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal with all the issues associated with a pleasant and easy experience with voice and with video, we think that takes a systems company not just a software company to do it right.
Charles Giancarlo -
If Bill Gates left Microsoft we wouldn't allow Donald Trump to run it.
will.i.am
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Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.
Satya Nadella -
Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy.
Jack Straw -
The only thing I think really needs to be addressed by Microsoft is biometrics.
Jeff Cohen -
This is just another example of Microsoft sticking it to the little guy and not protecting their customers. Microsoft has proven yet again that the security of a company's network should not be left in their hands as they are slow to react to such vulnerabilities.
Chris Smith -
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.
Steve Jobs -
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
Andy Grove
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Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.
Craig Mundie -
I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
Bill Gates -
The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.
Bill Gates -
From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.
Bill Gates -
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
Scott McNealy -
It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.
Steve Jobs
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Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.
Conan O'Brien -
Microsoft is pleased that customers using SMS 2003, including our recently announced SMS 2003 R2, can take advantage of the new capabilities delivered through Intel AMT and Intel's Professional Business Platform via the Intel-developed add-on software for SMS. This enables customers to better manage their environments and computing infrastructures by reducing many challenges they face today. Similarly, Microsoft is increasing its investments in the Microsoft System Center family of products to address resource optimization and virtual machine life-cycle management so customers can manage their physical and virtualized environments from one toolset.
Bob Muglia -
Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
Stewart Alsop -
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