#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 just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates. ↗

— Jon Heder

#bill #bill gates #did #dressed #gates

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#first #having #human #i #i think

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#chew #did #executives #group #guys

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#competition #different #especially #goals #i

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#beyond #competition #engaging #fair #go

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#applications #basically #both #business #completely

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#because #competitor #covered #data #dive

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#business model #change #company #continue #going

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#actually #applications #extract #feel #going