Microsoft Quotes

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. (Steve Ballmer)
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. View quote
Steve Jobs
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. View quote
Linus Torvalds
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead. View quote
Larry Ellison
Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix. View quote
Theo de Raadt
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. View quote
Linus Torvalds
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. View quote
Steve Jobs
I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect. View quote
Linus Torvalds
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. View quote
Bill Gates
I'm not a lawyer- I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM. View quote
Cory Doctorow
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)
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships. View quote
Ralph Nader
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. View quote
Steve Jobs
If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago. View quote
Steve Jobs
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. View quote
Steve Jobs
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products. View quote
Steve Jobs
Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better. View quote
Steve Jobs
Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them. View quote
Joel Spolsky
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and disdainful people who think it's tacky. This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments. Microsoft is the very embodiment of modern high-tech prosperity - it is, in a word, bourgeois - and so it attracts all of the same gripes. View quote
Neal Stephenson
I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease. View quote
Linus Torvalds
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 [in Internet Explorer] with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault. (Bruce Schneier)
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. View quote
Orrin Hatch
The idea that Bill Gates (one of the founders of Microsoft) has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place... View quote
Douglas Adams
Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that. View quote
Bill Gates
In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson