Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.
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.
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'
Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft—and then th...
Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.
There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.
With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft.
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process.
In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.
Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.
