#microsoft

Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us. ↗

— John W. Thompson

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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. ↗

— John W. Thompson

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One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

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How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft? ↗

— Al Gore

#country #how #intel #microsoft #problem

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#eventually #gold #grabbed #guess #hands

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

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Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them. ↗

— Jim Cramer

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

— Bill Gates

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At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right. ↗

— Bill Gates

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There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft. ↗

— Bill Gates

#like #likes #microsoft #no-one #pc