Quotes About Microsoft

#1. The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

Stewart Butterfield

#2. Microsoft is still not a black belt

Ken Kutaragi

#3. A photo app is a utility. It's like comparing 'Twitter' to Microsoft Word. If you want to be an author, you're not always going to constrain yourself to 140 characters.

Kevin Systrom

#4. Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#5. It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

Steve Jobs

#6. 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

#7. At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

Satya Nadella

#8. Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.

Janet Reno

#9. It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?

Chris DiBona

#10. Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease,

Walter Bender

#11. The vision, determination, stamina, hope, relentlessness, and sheer work that are involved in staying afloat, much less succeeding, are the same whether you are running a window on 47th Street or Miramax Films or Microsoft.

Bob Weinstein

#12. 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.

Bill Gates

#13. I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

Bill Gates

#14. I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.

Linus Torvalds

#15. [At Microsoft] I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was to delegate and then be able to properly review, but not to micromanage. To have a way of connecting and integrating without getting in the way.

Steve Ballmer

#16. Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

Kevin Mitnick

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

Bill Gates

#18. I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.

Barry Ritholtz

#19. Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back the scope of our ambition or the scale of our investment. While our opportunities are greater than ever, we also face new competitors, faster-moving markets and new customer demands.

Steve Ballmer

#20. Microsoft seems obsessed with the word active. there's Active Desktop, ActiveX, and Active Directory. however, the term is accurate-indeed, Active Directory is Active (when used correctly)

Ed Tittel

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

Paul Saffo

#22. There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

Adam Hartung

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

Jim Cramer

#24. Microsoft is always two years away from failure.

Bill Gates

#25. Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.

Satya Nadella

#26. Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators."

Andy Ihnatko

#27. Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'

Dave Barry

#28. 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

#29. Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.

Steve Jobs

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

Orrin Hatch

#31. 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.

Steven Sinofsky

#32. 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

#33. On the Internet, speed matters. According to research by Microsoft, Google, and others, if a website is even 250 milliseconds slower than a rival, people will visit it less often.

Marvin Ammori

#34. Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

Erik Naggum

#35. The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.

Robert Scoble

#36. Anyone who uses Windows on their home computer is familiar with routine security updates, which Microsoft issues on the second Tuesday of each month. In the Tribe it has become known as "Patch Tuesday.

Mark Bowden

#37. The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple's or Amazon's or Microsoft's. We're in a brave new world of fierce competition.

Howard Stringer

#38. We recommend that you use Blend for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 to work on the visual appearance of your app.

Anonymous

#39. Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.

Bill Gates

#40. My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.

John Sculley

#41. I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.

Steve Ballmer

#42. One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

Jimmy Wales

#43. When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.

Bruce Schneier

#44. I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

Jack LaLanne

#45. I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

Naveen Jain

#46. Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing,

Stephen Elop

#47. I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.

Robert Scoble

#48. I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

Ken Thompson

#49. At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.

Marc Andreessen

#50. In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.

Paul Allen

#51. 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

#52. I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

Linus Torvalds

#53. Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

Douglas Rushkoff

#54. In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

William Gibson

#55. I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

Tim Cook

#56. I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

Steve Jobs

#57. 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

#58. 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.

Meg Rosoff

#59. 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

#60. Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Miguel De Icaza

#61. 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

#62. Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

George Packer

#63. The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.

Walter Isaacson

#64. 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.

David Shenk

#65. In fact, I've met countless believers who have said, "The church is an organism, not an organization." Yet as they formed those very words, they continued to be devout members of churches that were organized along the lines of General Motors and Microsoft.

Frank Viola

#66. 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

#67. With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.

Nancy Tellem

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

Ryan C. Gordon

#69. Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus.

Tony Bates

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

Donald Clark

#71. I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.

Rupert Everett

#72. If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.

Paul Graham

#73. Why are man hole covers around? If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Linus Torvalds

#75. If you're Microsoft, you can prevent a porn site using microsoft.xxx. Although that would be ironic since micro and soft probably aren't at the forefront of desirable concepts when you're looking for porn.

Gary Corby

#76. Microsoft Office 2016 is now a family of UAP apps. What UI technology does it use? XAML.

Anonymous

#77. If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

Linus Torvalds

#78. We expect the launches of Skylake, Microsoft's Windows 10 and new OEM systems will bring excitement to client computing in the second half of 2015.

Brian Krzanich

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

Esther Dyson

#80. While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

Bill Gates

#81. Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

Nicolas Berggruen

#82. You can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies.

Josh Quittner

#83. This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places - as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

Satya Nadella

#84. Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.

Satya Nadella

#85. I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

Larry Ellison

#86. I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.

Terry Pratchett

#87. Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

Mark Zuckerberg

#88. When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

Steven Pinker

#89. There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and "successful." Microsoft products are successful - they make a lot of money - but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good.

Robert X. Cringely

#90. Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.

Virginia Postrel

#91. How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

Al Gore

#92. Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

Bill Gates

#93. 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

#94. You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.

Paul Thurrott

#95. Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Steve Jobs

#96. Microsoft had made it clear that the only way to preserve your station in Valley life was to create a monopoly. If you created a monopoly, you were at least partially exempt from the ordinary rapid cycle of creation and destruction.

Michael Lewis

#97. Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#98. The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to.

Douglas Rushkoff

#99. I wonder if in part why so many people are angry at Microsoft is not just because their products frustrate them so much, but also because this frustration is ignored. The computer makes people feel like they are dummies, when in fact it is the computer that is stupid.

Rosalind Picard

#100. English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

Robert McCrum