Microsoft Quotes - Page 12

• The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.

  Hugh S. Johnson

  Amazon, Earning, Disappointing

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• Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

  Joel Spolsky

  Mean, Normal, Remember

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.324, Apress

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• I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Hatred, May

  "Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds" by Christopher Smart, www.linux-mag.com. July 22, 2009.

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• Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores... [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful.

  John C. Dvorak

  Holiday, Successful, Cities

  "Microsoft Retail Stores Will Rival Apple Stores". www.pcmag.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Real, Apples, Adoption

  "Interview with Icculus". LinuxGames, May 13, 2007.

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• Microsoft unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows

  Bob Muglia

  Window

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• Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to help usher in the new era of cloud computing, by giving customers and partners the ability to deploy the Windows Azure platform in their own datacenters.

  Bob Muglia

  Clouds, Years, Giving

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• In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable.

  Dave Cutler

  Summer, Opportunity, Interesting

  "Introduction". Inside Windows NT, 1998.

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• I never sensed really bad blood between Microsoft and Apple. A lot of Macintosh users feel badly about PCs and do have some bad feelings. I call them Macintosh bigots a little. They say, oh, no, only the Macintosh is the good one, and I don't like to be that way.

  Steve Wozniak

  Apples, Blood, Feelings

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.

  Bill Gates

  Past, Years, Pda

  "Gates touts interactive TV" by Laura Rohde, www.cnn.com. October 14, 1999.

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• A zero-day exploit is a method of hacking a system. It's sort of a vulnerability that has an exploit written for it, sort of a key and a lock that go together to a given software package. It could be an internet web server. It could be Microsoft Office. It could be Adobe Reader or it could be Facebook.

  Edward Snowden

  Zero, Keys, Office

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Ideas, Looks

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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.'

  Bill Gates

  People, Needs, Culture

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• I watched as an extremely nerdy exhibitor - I'm talking about a guy who makes Bill Gates look like Brad Pitt.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Talking

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Weather, Platforms, Standards

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• 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

  People, Imagination, Able

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• If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied.

  John C. Dvorak

  Crush, Apples, Competition

  "Apple's Swan Song". www.pcmag.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.

  Philip Greenspun

  Stupid, Taken, Thinking

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• I curse Microsoft at least once a day. I only curse Apple every other day. As I see it, that's a 100 percent improvement.

  Sam Kass

  Apples, Improvement, Curse

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• Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.

  Paul Boutin

  Thinking, Phones, Fcc

  "Multicast or Bust" by Paul Boutin, www.wired.com. June 25, 1997.

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• 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

  Government, People, Giving

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• Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

  Harry Browne

  Army, Government, Alcoholics Anonymous

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• Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is sinful to do this. If it's a sin, then I hope all of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries are sinners. Someone whose salary is paid by U.S.taxpayers is happy to dramatically weaken the one place where we're winning big?!

  Charlie Munger

  Winning, Years, Trying

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• Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, Done, Outcomes

  Charlie Munger's comments on Wesco and Berkshire Hathaway at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.

  Brad Templeton

  Views, Usa, Tanks

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