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Quotes About Microsoft

I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I've always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.
~ Tim Sweeney
Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10 as the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer PC ecosystem and monopolising app distribution and commerce.
~ Tim Sweeney
The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.
~ Robert Scoble
To confuse everybody, Microsoft never released a Windows 9. Microsoft skipped a version number when moving from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
~ Andy Rathbone
I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.
~ Barry Ritholtz
Together, Cingular Wireless and Microsoft are working to revolutionize the way people communicate with mobile devices and set a new standard for personal connectivity.
~ Suzan DelBene
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
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
~ Scott McNealy
To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
~ Linus Torvalds
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
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.
~ Erik Naggum
Toyota has announced it will start integrating Microsoft technology into their vehicles. It's perfect for the person who wants a car that crashes every ten minutes.
~ Conan O'Brien
I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
~ Linus Torvalds
I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
~ Warren Buffett
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
~ Linus Torvalds
Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.
~ David Filo
A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.
~ Burt Rutan
It's quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they're trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn't really think that through.
~ Peter Molyneux
Regular users know nothing about program languages or varying exchange protocols. They just want the thing to run. So Microsoft invented a way to bundle executable programs and data, the DLL, that allows them to be smoothly exchanged by computers on different networks.
~ Mark Bowden
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
JesteÅ› tak przydatny jak pomoc Microsoftu.
~ John O'Farrell
Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.
~ John W. Thompson
Thanks to the very best in Microsoft/Intel engineering, it crashes every time you exhale too hard in its general vicinity. --Fanboy on his computer
~ Barry Lyga
Is it possible for Apple or anyone else to rule in the mobile realm the way Microsoft did on the desktop? The way to do this is to go mass-market with a device that can do anything the others can do.
~ Steven Levy