Microsoft Quotes - Page 7

• It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

  Bill Gates

  Nice, Ipads, Wish

  "Bill Gates Joins the iPad's Army of Critics. Steve Jobs Couldn't Care Less" by Brent Schlender, www.cbsnews.com. February 11, 2010.

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• As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

  Esther Dyson

  Opportunity, Care, Rich

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• As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

  Hans Rosling

  Microsoft Word, Use, Goldfish

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• MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.

  Donald Clark

  Quagmire, Hubris, Parting

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• I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.

  Steve Wozniak

  Funny, Humor, Successful

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• I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, House

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.177, Crown Archetype

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• Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out.

  Paul Saffo

  Intellectual, Mind, Roaches

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• Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Powerful, Earth

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• Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work.

  Stephen Manes

  People, Want, Company

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I think MySpace is doomed, I give them about two more years.... I think Facebook is the next Microsoft in both the bad and the good senses. That's an amazing company that is going to do a lot of good and bad things.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Orlando Sentinel, November 03, 2007.

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• When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

  Bill Gates

  Dream, Impact, Years

  Bill Gates's speech at News Conference: A New Era of Technical Leadership at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, news.microsoft.com. June 15, 2006.

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• Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.

  David Einhorn

  Disappointment, Smart, Opportunity

  "Transcript of David Einhorn's Speech at the Ira Sohn Conference". www.businessinsider.com. June 2, 2011.

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

  Bill Gates

  Commitment, Driving, Advertising

  "Q&A with Bill Gates: Microsoft's pushing its frontiers". ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Interesting, Cameras

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• Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Google

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• Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

  Bill Gates

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Given

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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.

  Bill Gates

  Archives, Done, Operations

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Bill Gates : A Seasoned Boy Wonder Still Searching for the Cutting Edge". Interview with Nancy Yoshihara, articles.latimes.com. December 10, 1995.

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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.

  Bill Gates

  Ipads, Frustrated, Trying

  "Bill Gates: Ipad Users 'Frustrated,' Need Microsoft Surface" By Matt Clark, www.ign.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Apple isn't the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft, ever. Google is the next Microsoft, so Google is seen by Ballmer as the immediate threat - the one he has a hope in hell of actually doing something about.

  Robert X. Cringely

  Apples, Google, Roles

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• America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

  Mark McKinnon

  Law, America, Self

  "America’s Artists Are the Ultimate Entrepreneurs: Let’s Give Them a Hand" by Mark McKinnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Philosophy, Home, Thinking

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• digital hub (center of our universe) is moving from PC to cloud - PC now just another client alongside iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, ... - Apple is in danger of hanging on to old paradigm too long (innovator's dilemma) - Google and Microsoft are further along on the technology, but haven't quite figured it out yet - tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem

  Steve Jobs

  Moving, Technology, Clouds

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• Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Fall, Technology, Two

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

  Marc Andreessen

  Successful, Technology, Different

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• Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Past

  "InfoWorld" Magazine, October 2001.

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