Quotes about Microsoft

The news from Microsoft is a significant negative, but clearly the market isn't buckling with that announcement.

Bob Sitko

Microsoft has shown increasingly good stewardship over shareholder's capital.

James Denney

There is fear at Sun that this will expose too much to Microsoft . It is an appearance issue.

Jeffrey Kingston

Financially, it could be not a bad scenario for holders of Microsoft shares.

Gary Beach

We looked extensively at clustering solutions for our Microsoft Exchange 2000 environment, but we found that traditional clustering was both too complex and too costly.

Rob Harper

Microsoft is now taking a viable approach, ... It's a more practical way to go about it.

Al Gillen

The closest person in scale is probably Microsoft, but by their own admission their technology is behind. And if I had to guess I'd say it's 18 to 24 months behind.

Peter Misek

There are very significant concerns from the enterprise market as to the credibility of Microsoft in terms of their ability to deliver.

David Baltaxe

It's basically a business decision for Microsoft. Like any other company, we have business priorities. Our focus really is in delivering the best experience to Windows customers.

Adam Anderson

The Microsoft lawsuit was totally ill-conceived from the beginning. It should have been a private action because it was primarily aimed to benefit a number of Microsoft competitors.

Slade Gorton

I think it will be hard for us to ignore it completely, but we look at possibly the clouds blowing away and things becoming a little more sanguine for Microsoft later in the year.

John Leo

It's a way for Microsoft to leverage the investment they've already made in this technology. I don't know if this move is to appease banks. It's more to allow Microsoft to generate revenue.

Art Russell

We are excited to have the support and cooperation of Microsoft in this endeavor. The challenges facing education can only be met through a community effort from the public and private sector.

Paul Vallas

They were the first really big, complicated acquisitions Microsoft has ever done. It took us longer to consume the acquisitions than we thought, and certainly longer than we indicated.

James Utzschneider

I think the last thing we need to do is come out with another language. The advantage of Java -- and what scares Microsoft -- is multiplatform.

Curtis Chambers

We are extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified status in the Microsoft Partner Program.

Jason Morris

Microsoft is really going back to its roots here.

Charles Di Bona

We never sued Microsoft for having a monopoly, ... We sued them for what they did with their monopoly. And that I think is going to be the cutting-edge issue in antitrust issues.

Joel Klein

The Microsoft WMF vulnerability is bad. It is very, very bad. This is a bad situation that will only get worse.

Tom Liston

Microsoft has no comment on Intel, and is in the quiet period leading up to its first-quarter earnings. The company has issued no guidance on its financial results since it announced its fiscal fourth quarter earnings.

Caroline Boren

At Microsoft, we are fielding 2,000 attacks per hour. We are a constant target, and you have to assume your Internet-facing service is also a big target.

Mike Danseglio

Microsoft is about as exciting as General Motors in the 50s and 60s. This was a decent quarter but so what?

Henry Hewitt

We have woven privacy into the DNA of Microsoft, from product development to deployment, and decisions are made with privacy in mind.

Peter Cullen

I don't know if it's fear or love, but it's a question of something Microsoft knows it has to do and will do.

Charles Rule

You would think that with Microsoft coming, that the small vendors would collapse. But Microsoft is really, really late.

Tom Bittman

Competition is getting tough, and Microsoft is evolving to become more nimble. It's doing what good companies do: evolve to meet new challenges.

Jonathan Zuck

The PC makers are going to have to make their own decision how they're going to handle this based on their own business needs. It's not something that Microsoft can dictate.

Rob Bennett

The Microsoft platform is very competitive with RIM devices, and is attractive as a lower cost alternative.

Peter Pawlak

The personality of Bill Gates determines the culture of Microsoft.

Nathan Myhrvold

They're [Microsoft] really going ahead with this community license. I think in the long run it will be a good thing for Microsoft.

Laurie Mccabe

It should be easy to connect Microsoft to Microsoft. The bottom line is they have to do it and they're kind of late.

Laurie Mccabe

Keeping Microsoft decent is allowing companies to offer our products to customers.

Bob Young

As SSA picks up more and more distressed companies, it will quickly become SSA versus Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.

Josh Greenbaum

You can see how that [approach] can very easily be translated to other consumer entertainment spaces where Microsoft currently doesn't have much of a profile.

Paul Jackson

Everyone knows Microsoft is the best company in America. Yes, it's expensive. But the earnings are always highly understated and they're generating billions and billions of dollars in free cash flow.

Paul Wick

ECIS deeply regrets that strong antitrust law enforcement appears to be the only way to stop the sustained anti-competitive behavior of Microsoft.

Simon Awde

Microsoft is the only console maker so far to launch a paid subscription service.

Brian O'rourke

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

Bruce Scheneier

It is part of the regular dialogue between Microsoft and the Commission on a range of policy issues.

Tom Brookes

Microsoft can compete against any single Linux vendor, but they can't compete a global Linux ecosystem with universal interoperability.

Jim Zemlin

It's no longer just a Windows, Microsoft Windows and Intel-based world.

Doug Barney

We were deathly concerned about Microsoft getting into the Internet, ... We were working with Netscape to get some advantage so we could compete on at least close to equal terms.

David Colburn

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows, ... This is not innovation. This is the end of innovation.

Larry Ellison

This is not a partisan, anti-Microsoft group.

Simon Phipps

As a title is sold and moves to the customer, there will be an associated click charge, and Microsoft will share in it.

Mark Bayer

Compare that to what SAP and Microsoft are doing jointly to provide some useful functionality and you'll see that Microsoft is retooling entire interface around Office and that is much more extensive.

Paul Hamerman

For the first time ever, the Microsoft Business Solutions and Mobile and Embedded were in the black.

Colleen Healy

The Internet business for Microsoft is a loss business. Microsoft has been a financial failure in the Internet services business.

David Readerman

Microsoft is not going to establish a chokehold on the information appliances industry. These appliances don't need a standardized operating system the way PCs do. In many cases, the consumer will have no idea what the operating system is, since it's meant to be completely hidden.

Kevin Hause

We have heard from Microsoft that no representative from the company will attend the briefing. So, with Cisco Systems, this makes two companies that have confirmed they're opting out.

Lynne Weil

Something is being invented at Microsoft right now that competes with everything you guys are thinking of right now. You have to be able to work with that.

John Powers

That is one area that Microsoft thinks is potentially very lucrative and fast growing.

Matt Rosoff

Microsoft needs to defend its turf. If Microsoft turns its back, it could be in a situation where the PC becomes irrelevant. It's important for Microsoft to defuse the situation.

Art Russell

Like the products or not, Microsoft makes it easy. It's more of a one-click experience.

Dave Rosenberg

No question that Microsoft has made significant inroads compared to where they were just a couple of years ago _ which was no where.

Charles Golvin

I think CA and Microsoft need to be involved, and we'd like to see them involved. This is not where we should be competing. Our clear intent is to invite a set of players that can make this a meaningful industry standard.

Tom Bishop

I think it's a great change. He's not trying to go up against Microsoft, which is smart -- I think he's dialed into what drives this industry.

Neal Tisdale

By and large, we're not going to be hoping for great things from Microsoft, because Xbox wasn't a blowout this year and it doesn't look like PCs were a blowout.

Bill Kornitzer

Failure to uphold this Commission decision will allow Microsoft to continue these anti-competitive practices ... in the markets addressed in the current case and would open the way for an extension of the monopoly into new areas.

Simon Awde

That was purely a unilateral decision by Microsoft.

Michael Morris

It's a reality. It's going to be used in the office. ... I don't believe it will be a large enterprise solution, and I don't believe that Microsoft has asserted that they know how to get there.

Donald Peterson

He tried, but they (Microsoft executives) were completely uninterested in what he had to say about China.

Steve Langdon

The next move will be bringing Itanium and Integrity, and Microsoft [Windows] and Linux, into the environment.

David Grant

Portal people like AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft are looking to be your front face on your device.

Jill House

This is an important signal for not just Microsoft but others in tech.

Mark Stahlman

Microsoft continues to take a confrontational stance.

James Governor

There's a lot of confusion out there over Microsoft. There's not a lot of good news out there.

Nick Angilletta

Microsoft would think twice about spending more than $20 billion. The probability of a deal happening is low.

Brendan Barnicle

Microsoft has patches available for businesses and consumers, but the problem for enterprises is that they have to be careful in applying the patches, which can damage complex computer systems.

Alfred Huger

This doesn't change the size of the pie that people are fighting for. It just makes it more likely that Microsoft will get a bigger chunk of it without the government interfering.

Alex Vallecillo

MSA was formed to keep people connected, to each other and to Microsoft.

Kathi Jones

China is looking to foreign companies, including Microsoft, as sources of technology.

Nicholas Lardy

We're excited to see the OSDL join Microsoft in working to deliver insights and facts we know customers need to help inform their IT decisions.

Martin Taylor

The way in which these suits could be good for Microsoft competitors is if [they] cause Microsoft to create bureaucracy and legal oversight committees, to move more slowly.

Neil Herman

It's very important for Microsoft to win the hearts and minds of the developers.

Michael Cherry

The commission is really drawing a line in the sand. If you're Microsoft, you'd say this is just wrong and it's not the way the law works and the market works.

Ronald Cass

With WWF, Microsoft will let programmers isolate process logic and business rules as they create composite applications.

Scott Woodgate

I don't think this is an isolated incident. After Microsoft patches this one, Windows users shouldn't be fully confidant.

Steve Sundermeier

Microsoft finally has a good engine. As good as Dragon and IBM.

Peter Mcgregor

Microsoft Logic: Press start to log off.

Loesje

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

Al Gore

We're definitely not going to see somebody from Cisco and Microsoft. We're obviously hopeful, but with less than 48 hours to go before the event, it's hard to imagine why we wouldn't have heard back.

Lynne Weil

If Microsoft wants to paint a picture of judge that is biased, this gives them a little more ammunition.

Spencer Waller

One of the Microsoft representatives in attendance admitted that unilateral language extensions would be detrimental and said that Microsoft 'wouldn't be cowboys' by unilaterally introducing such extensions in their implementation of Java.

James Gosling

The market's growth will involve major shifts in share among the OS platforms. The winners will be Microsoft and Linux.

Bill Hughes

You will begin to hear why Microsoft is doing these things and why they're good for consumers and for competition, ... In antitrust law, that's the ultimate test.

Charles Rule

There's no risk in going with Microsoft. They're not going away any time soon.

Kyle Mcnabb

It does a very hard thing: it makes Microsoft a sympathetic character.

Dwight Davis

That is where Star Office comes in. It is compatible with Microsoft Office and beyond that a company can save on the cost of the NT license and the Office desktop license.

Andy Bochman

Microsoft has stepped up to the plate in a way we've never seen before.

Chuck Austin

When I look at Linux, the playing field isn't level because Microsoft is the incumbent.

Joe Wilcox

The hardware IP initiative is definitely a good step forward for consumers. I think it will get the ball rolling to see what else Microsoft may do in terms of licensing IP.

Sarang Ghatpande

You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is Microsoft buying Apple.

Michelle Applebaum

For instance, on a small business computer from Hewlett-Packard, the word 'Microsoft' may never appear on the screen.

Chris Le Tocq

This is a very important strategic deal for Microsoft to move beyond the PC.

Brian Goodstadt

Microsoft is not endorsing Java or J2EE [Java 2 Enterprise Edition] with this agreement. We will still compete heavily with .Net against Java, ... But finding that shared customer base led us, like it should, to say, 'Customers are sure finding a lot of value in this. Can we do better?'

Bill Hilf

We have known for a while that Microsoft was making a very serious bid to increase its presence on mobile devices.

Clemens Joos

The main objection I get to this is it's not Microsoft Word.

Richard Kebo

Unless Microsoft pulls a major rabbit out of its hat tomorrow, the judge will sign off on what the government put in front of him.

Dana Hayter

Microsoft has conceded that the server will have some Linux competition, but they've drawn a line in the sand at the desktop.

Michael Robertson