Microsoft Quotes

• I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

  Bill Gates

  Ironic, Exam, Owners

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• Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

  Linus Torvalds

  Technology, Evil, Linux

  Linus Torvalds‏ @Linus__Torvalds, twitter.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Greed

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• There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Funny, People

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Inspirational, Mean, Technology

  "Triumph of the Nerds", June 12, 1996.

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• The Internet? We are not interested in it

  Bill Gates

  Computer, Internet, Not Interested

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• So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

  Ted Nelson

  Microsoft Word, Oracles, Bills

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• I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Thinking, People, Matter

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• I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.

  James L. Barksdale

  Thinking, Groups, Separation

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• The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Tests, Information, Court

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• Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

  Robert Glaser

  Player, Reality, Doors

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• I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Thinking, Succeed, Company

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• I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

  John W. Thompson

  Powerful, Thinking, Experience

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.

  John W. Thompson

  Relationship, Kids, Pride

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• Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

  Jim Cramer

  Strange, Mysterious, Economy

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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.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Money, Business

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• It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Mankind, Versus

  "Oh, What a Tangled Web Silicon Valley Executives Weave". www.wsj.com. March 05, 1998.

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• I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Job, Facts, Problem

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

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• There are people who don`t like women holding power.

  Bill O'Reilly

  People

  Source: www.today.com

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• Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

  Bill Gates

  Bugs, Products

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• Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Dropping Acid, Best Job

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• As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Apples, Hands, Gold

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• Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Russia, People, Bills

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• Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

  Orrin Hatch

  Technology, Practice, Competition

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