Microsoft Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there
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Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.
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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.'
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Microsoft develops a lot of software that allows people to realize their potential.
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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.
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Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease.
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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.
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Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
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Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence...
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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
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Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.
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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.
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Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.
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It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.
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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.
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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.
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Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.
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I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
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The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
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Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.
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Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.
