Microsoft Quotes

• Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Standards
  • Microsoft

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

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Microsoft
  • Rebelling

• Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

  

  Theo de Raadt
  • People
  • Hate
  • Linux

• Microsoft isn't going away any time soon, but the role they will play in the future of software will not be the same as it has been in the past two decades

  

  Sabeer Bhatia
  • Future
  • Role
  • Microsoft

• Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease.

  

  Walter Bender
  • Disease
  • Microsoft
  • Symptoms

• I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Company
  • Microsoft
  • Corbis

• It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda Gates and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Software
  • Microsoft
  • Melinda Gates

• 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.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Microsoft
  • Digital workstyle

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

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Company
  • Industry

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

  

  Bill Gates
  • Microsoft
  • IQ

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

  

  Miguel de Icaza
  • People
  • Microsoft
  • Probably

• I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Public
  • Foundation
  • Microsoft

• Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.

  

  David Shenk
  • History
  • Company
  • Corporate

• The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Problem
  • Taste
  • Microsoft

• Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Innovation
  • Office
  • Assets

• Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Value
  • Advertising
  • Microsoft

• Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing.

  

  Stephen Elop
  • Together
  • Engineering
  • Partnership

• I told Bill Gates I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Word
  • Public
  • Bill Gates

• 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.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Technology
  • Objects
  • Corporate America

• The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Microsoft
  • HD-DVD
  • Pro-consumer

• One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Culture
  • Company

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

  

  Bill Gates
  • Microsoft
  • Jawa
  • Oracle`s ambitions

• With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Market
  • Windows 8
  • IPad-type

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

  

  Bill Gates
  • Company
  • Microsoft
  • People away

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