Microsoft Quotes - Page 9

• It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

  Steve Jobs

  Clever, Years, Ducks

  "Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company". Book by Owen W. Linzmayer, 2004.

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

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Google

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Dvds, Attractive, Copies

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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.

  Bill Gates

  Views, Perception, Underdog

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• I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

  Bill Gates

  Satisfied, Products

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• When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

  Bill Gates

  Activity, Primaries

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• Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.

  Craig Mundie

  Beef, Source, Let Me

  "A Tip of the Black Hat From MS" by Farhad Manjoo, www.wired.com. July 27, 2001.

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• Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, Philosophy

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft out of the picture. Kind of like what Microsoft allegedly does to people who write applications for Windows.

  John C. Dvorak

  Writing, Cutting, People

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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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• I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

  Gabe Newell

  Able, Nine, Months

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.

  Gabe Newell

  Texas, Years, Guy

  "Valve’s Gabe Newell discusses the frontiers of gaming, from wearable technology to 'tongue controllers'". Interview with Ed Fries, venturebeat.com. July 25, 2012.

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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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• 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 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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• I've passion for software, and Microsoft provide me a true platform.

  Arfa Karim

  Passion, Platforms, Software

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center in Ireland. It's not about a US citizen, but we want it." Microsoft said, "OK, fine. Go to a judge in Ireland. Ask them for a warrant. We have a mutual legal-assistance treaty. They'll do it. Give that to us, and we'll provide the information to you in accordance with Irish laws."

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Data, Giving

  Source: www.thenation.com

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