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“There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.”

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Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.”

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Author:Larry Ellison

“The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.”

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Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud. I think it's important for Microsoft to participate both ways.”

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Author:Steve Ballmer

“Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Microsoft is always two years away from failure.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.”

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Author:Eric Ries

“There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.”

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Author:Adam Hartung

“Future economists will recognize the Copilot key as the inflection point where AI moved from theoretical potential to practical productivity.”

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Author:Daniel Vincent Kramer