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My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.
Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.
There was nothing in the deal with Justice that would change Microsoft's business practices in any way.
I was worried Microsoft would take my music. But ultimately I talked to the lawyers and I still own it.
I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'
I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
I may make jokes about Microsoft at times, but at the same time, I think the Microsoft hatred is a disease.
When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest - so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft.
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.
As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.
[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.
I feel like an email cross-dresser - I use a Microsoft product on my Apple product to access my Google product.
Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.
With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.
In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger.
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.
The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.
I curse Microsoft at least once a day. I only curse Apple every other day. As I see it, that's a 100 percent improvement.
The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
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.
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft
If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
The thing that the Microsoft folks did a really good job of is the easy-to-use tools for making application-building simple.
Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.
Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.
I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I've always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.
I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.
For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”
I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.
By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.
I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.
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.
The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.
If a company has a navigation system or a database or a virtual assistant they like better, Microsoft will meet them in the middle.