Microsoft Quotes

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.

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

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.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

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.

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.

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

Facebook collects a lot of data from people and admits it. And it also collects data which isn't admitted. And Google does too. As for Microsoft, I don't know. But I do know that Windows has features that send data about the user.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

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.

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

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

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'

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

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

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.

Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.

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

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

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection.

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

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.

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

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

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.

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.

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

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