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“I think that the anti-Microsoft sentiment is simply due to their having been so successful selling a lot of crap.”

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“I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.”

“I'm simply too content doing what I want to do to really have a very negative attitude towards MicroSoft. They make bad products - so what? I don't need to care, because I happily don't have to use them, and writing my own alternative has been a very gratifying experience in many ways.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.”

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Author:Nancy Tellem

“It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?”

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Author:Chris DiBona

“Most people know that there is this partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft on search.”

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Author:Ross Levinsohn

“The rest of the world views the USA the way Silicon Valley views Microsoft. Except with tanks.”

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Author:Brad Templeton

“MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris.”

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Author:Donald Clark

“As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.”

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Author:Esther Dyson

“When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.”

“UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.”

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Author:Mark McKinnon

“With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.”

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Author:Jean-Louis Gassee

“Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.”

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Author:Philip Greenspun

“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.”

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Author:Sam Kass

“Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.”

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Author:Paul Boutin

“The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is sinful to do this. If it's a sin, then I hope all of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries are sinners. Someone whose salary is paid by U.S.taxpayers is happy to dramatically weaken the one place where we're winning big?!”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“Congress is debating a kill switch that would allow President Obama to freeze all activity on the internet if there was a national emergency. The kill switch goes by the top-secret code name 'Microsoft Windows.'”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.”

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Author:Steve Ballmer

“Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice.”

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Author:Janet Reno

“I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.”

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Author:Will Smith

“Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'”

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Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.”

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Author:Bill Gates

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

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Author:Bill Gates

“When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.”

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Author:Craig Mundie

“Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.”

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Author:John Sculley

“Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft out of the picture. Kind of like what Microsoft allegedly does to people who write applications for Windows.”

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Author:John C. Dvorak

“I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.”

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Author:Naveen Jain

“Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.”

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Author:Naveen Jain

“Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.”

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Author:Marco Arment

“Apple isn't the next Microsoft, you see. Apple is not the next anything because the role it aspires to transcends anything imaginable by Microsoft, ever. Google is the next Microsoft, so Google is seen by Ballmer as the immediate threat - the one he has a hope in hell of actually doing something about.”

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Author:Robert X. Cringely

“Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators."”

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Author:Andy Ihnatko

“You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.”

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Author:Paul Thurrott

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