#microsoft

Facebook collects a lot of data from people and admits it. And it also collects data which isn't admitted. And Google does too. As for Microsoft, I don't know. But I do know that Windows has features that send data about the user. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#admitted #also #collects #data #does

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#go #microsoft #most #out #people

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#antidote #apple #bills #buy #itself

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. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#apple #ceased #certainly #computer #computer industry

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#away #blow #corporate #corporate america #cost

There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#entire #every #excel #flight #hidden

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#crappy #evil #just #make #microsoft

«Once, I went to this little meeting of Microsoft kids. Like, this high-school trip thing, but it was very exclusive. We met the world’s greatest Futurist there. Dr Gustav Y. Svante. Nobody knows who he is. That’s why he’s the world’s greatest Futurist. He told us... He said that the future was already here, but nobody listens to the future. The future is all around us, but we don’t see the future yet. We don’t hear it or see it, so we can’t tell it.”» ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#microsoft #love

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple. ↗

— Tim Cook

#apple #does #i #microsoft #pressure

The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection. ↗

— William M. Daley

#announced #bring #creating #exactly #incentives