Quotes About Microsoft

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

We have design capability, which everyone thought we sold to Microsoft, but we didn't sell it. We will maintain the Nokia feel in all our products. We can't have different products, each feeling different, in the market.

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

Microsoft's culture is very strong.

I have a lot of respect for Microsoft.

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused.

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

I grew up with Microsoft. I know the leadership of Microsoft.

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

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

If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.

I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.

Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.

I think we have a tax policy that was designed before Microsoft even went public. I think we've got to change - we're at a huge disadvantage around the world.

I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.

Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.

Not all of Microsoft's businesses are successful, but they have every technology possible.