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In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later. — William Gibson

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft. — Jean-Louis Gassee

Do not work at Walmart expecting to receive your salary from Microsoft. — Patience Johnson

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet. — Larry Ellison

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry. — Peter Diamandis

Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary. — Jerry Yang

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges. — Jeff Raikes

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here. — Satya Nadella

I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect. — Linus Torvalds

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that. — Bill Gates

Many reporters believed, Dvorak writes, that if you ended up in the 'needs work' category, Microsoft would take pains to try and have you fired. — Linsey McGoey

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future ... I called that future The Wired World. — Paul Allen

By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google. — Douglas Rushkoff

Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus. — Tony Bates

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems. — Stewart Alsop

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing! — Nathan Myhrvold

I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group. — Jim Barksdale

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' — Steve Ballmer

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community. — Mark Zuckerberg

We have no intention of shipping another bloated OS and shoving it down the throats of our users. — Paul Maritz

Absolutely determined to ensure that Microsoft complies fully with the 2004 anti-trust decision. — Neelie Kroes

My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft. — Alec Berg

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking. — Nathan Myhrvold

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple. — Tim Cook

The world is changing, but so is Microsoft. — Steve Ballmer

Microsoft is still not a black belt — Ken Kutaragi

Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst. — Mitch Kapor

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

On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather. — Jean-Louis Gassee

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM. — Bill Gates

Thanks to the very best in Microsoft/Intel engineering, it crashes every time you exhale too hard in its general vicinity.
Fanboy on his computer — Barry Lyga

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in. — Bill Gates

With the general availability of Windows 8/RT and Surface, I have decided it is time for me to take a step back from my responsibilities at Microsoft. — Steven Sinofsky

Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess. — Jon Katz

At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. — Satya Nadella

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. — Chuck Palahniuk

If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about. — Leroy Hood

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

Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice. — Janet Reno

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process. — Anatoly Chubais

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity. — Bill Gates

Clippy got that pervert-on-the-playground look again.. — Rob Reid

Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. — Satya Nadella

Any religion whose messiah's name
isn't recognized by Microsoft Word can't be that much of
a threat. — Stephen Colbert

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love. — Kara Swisher

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office. — Steve Jurvetson

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

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. — Bill Gates

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

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts. — Bill Gates

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better. — Steve Jobs

Why are man hole covers around? If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft — Malcolm Gladwell

DEDICATION
To the very capable engineers responsible for Microsoft Windows 10.
Bless your hearts.
Bless. Your. Hearts. — Penny Reid

Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source. — Craig Mundie

Microsoft unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows — Bob Muglia

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth." — Bill Gates

Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus. — Lori Lesko

Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft. — Satya Nadella

Microserfs (1995) p28 'He's thinking of quitting [Microsoft] to be a pixelation broker, going around to museums to digitize their paintings — Douglas Coupland

At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks. — Marc Andreessen

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. — Steve Ballmer

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform. — Satya Nadella

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

Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work. — Stephen Manes

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

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products. — Steve Jobs

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust) — Bill Gates

Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision. — Bill Gates

The fact is ... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices. — Orrin Hatch

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. — Naveen Jain

My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it. — John Sculley

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom. — Eric S. Raymond

Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search ... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all. — David Filo

I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft. — Maria Semple

Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft. — Sheryl Sandberg

If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry. — Mitchell Kapor

development at leading-edge software organizations, like JavaSoft, Microsoft, and Netscape. He called to chat with a — Michael A. Cusumano

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise. — Leila Janah

I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right? — Steve Jobs

Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily. — Cory Doctorow

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

Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson

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

Microsoft's an important partner for Dell, an important company in the industry. — Michael Dell

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

For the last 15 years, Microsoft's master business plan seems to have been, Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it. — David Pogue

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product. — Bill Gates

To me, Microsoft is about empowerment ... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk. — Satya Nadella

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock. — Bill Gates

Microsoft was twelve years old before people started talking about Microsoft millionaires; Netscape was one and a half. — Michael Lewis

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

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one. — Warren Buffett

I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time. — Barry Ritholtz

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

MSN became a quagmire, partly because of Microsoft's hubris. — Donald Clark

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

I failed in some subject but my friend pass in all,today he is an engineer in microsoft and iam is owner of microsoft.
-Bills Gate — Gangaji

Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease, — Walter Bender

Microsoft is always two years away from failure. — Bill Gates