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I'd rather use Windows and Internet Explorer in Hell than I'd use Linux and Mozilla Firefox in Heaven!
I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.
It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.
You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone.
Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
Whatever device you use, Windows will be there. Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise.
The truth is that you can't really tell how anybody's doing in the tech business for at least five or 10 years.
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .
The Clippers are more valuable in Los Angeles. It's a phenomenal city, a phenomenal market, phenomenal everything.
I'm going to f---ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f---ing kill Google.
As a businessman, if you ask me what I'm proud of, I'm proud of the fact that I made $250 billion under my watch as CEO.
I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.
As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud.
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.
There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.
Diversity of form factor matters, and not compromising either form factor. You need diversity of price point. That's quite important.
We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.
I've found three or four things that are quite interesting to me that I'm focused on. That's been fun.The Clippers is obviously one of them.
As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.
We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.
Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.
I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.
The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.
There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.
One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.
I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.
I'm all in on the Los Angeles Clippers. We're moving forward. We've got to work to be the best we can be to take advantage of all the assets in the community.
The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to be very rock solid, and crisp in execution.
It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.
The Clippers are the L.A. Clippers, and they will remain the L.A. Clippers. There is no question about that. I live in Seattle. I will continue to live in Seattle.
There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.
If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
I can tell you first-hand from my experiences with Sacramento, the league does try to honor the fan bases it has, and encourage teams to stay in their home markets.
In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn't just think about the device and all the pieces separately. Bravo.
I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.
I think these things social networks are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.
Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.
Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.
Anybody who ever left Microsoft to Amazon, we could count on them coming back within a year or two, because it's not a great place to work to do innovative stuff as an engineer.
I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.
Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.
And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.
You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
There's a huge crowd out there that basically will go nuts recommending to every coach on the planet, "Hey, coach, I've been playing with the analytics. I think you should do X, Y, and Z."
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.
[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.
My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.