Quotes about Windows

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Horace Mann

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi

...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The evidence ? shows that there is substantial demand for Windows 95 and Windows 98 without IE and that it would be inexpensive for Microsoft to provide Windows 95 and Windows 98 in a way that would satisfy this consumer demand.

Frederick Warren

Last year, we introduced DING! for Windows and immediately heard from our growing number of Customers that use Macintosh computers. Today, we will eliminate our Customers' DING! envy by offering a Macintosh version of the tool.

Anne Murray

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Alan Alda

The project will save energy, in that there is added insulation. New windows in the dispatch center also have cut energy costs.

Larry Sanders

He said the waters coming into the basement its going down the stairwells and all the windows have blown out that' the last thing I heard from him.

Mary Baker

The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.

Arnold Newman

Most of them will switch and find they never need to run Windows.

Philip Schiller

We know Windows Live is becoming increasingly more important in the services division, but this seems to indicate that it is taking on a new and even larger role.

Steve Kleynhans

Go to [the] 'Tools' [menu] and 'Windows Update.' It will take you to a Microsoft page that will install all the latest security patches. There have been quite a number of security patches.

Dan Schrader

As the Office [2007] PC versions of those applications improve, we're tracking that on the Windows Mobile side.

Pieter Knook

Every fall, we get a massive truckload of stuff from Dell. They'll pre-install an image for us because it's a bulk purchase—the operating system and all university applications, ... One thing we couldn't do [in 2004] was pre-load Windows XP SP2. It showed up too late for us to get it in, test it and make sure it works with all of our apps.

Laura Hunter

[There's] lots of old code hanging around Windows. Mr. Gibson is being spooked by ghosts of the past.

Richard Stiennon

There've been numerous complaints about those windows. It's so tragic that the baby had to lose his life. It's horrible. I hope something is done so this never happens again.

Susan Rouse

If they already have a computer system running Windows 95, there's not a lot of reason for them to go out and buy Windows 98. In fact, we expect the majority of Windows 98 upgrade sales to go to PC enthusiasts.

Chris Letocq

We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users considering making the switch.

Philip Schiller

Windows makes it really easy to pick whatever software you want to use and whatever service you want to use, ... We're really focused on addressing the needs of our customers and developing a platform that all of our partners can build on, and add value to, to provide the greatest customer choice.

Greg Sullivan

Under the windows and one spot at the top the paint is flaking and you can see the white plaster underneath.

Marilyn Lyons

With spring coming, you're opening the windows, and you want everything to be fresh and clean. Painting is part of that rebirth mode.

Barbara Richardson

As a programmer, it's sometimes difficult to know how ordinary people with no technical experience are reacting to your software. Linux people tend to know other Linux people. In these usability tests, we selected test subjects who were experienced with Windows, but who had never heard of Linux, and asked them to perform basic tasks using the Linux desktop.

Nat Friedman

Microsoft is making Windows Enterprise an entitlement of Software Assurance, and before you could buy it separately. This affects a significant number of [Gartner] clients that have presence across the globe, multinational companies.

Alvin Park

Windows Vista and the next version of Office will usher in a new user experience that developers can build upon and illustrate the capabilities of the underlying platform.

Soma Somasegar

I don't know if [that issue] would change the number of piracies. Also, with every new version of our products, we're looking for ways to protect them from counterfeiting, and there will be some new anti-counterfeiting measures in Windows 98.

Sarah Alexander

Oh she's devastated. I had to take her out of there because she couldn't handle the smoke even though the windows are all closed.

Alvin Jones

There was a set of apartment buildings that simply tipped over. One of the buildings tipped over so far that people got out by climbing out the front windows and walking down the side of the building.

Carl Wentworth

It looks pretty bad. The front engine of the bus went right through one of those picture windows.

Kate Johnson

After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts.

Morris Mandel

You should check around all your doors and windows to see if there are any drafts. A lot of heat can be lost through a very small crack at the bottom of a door. Sealing that off with weather stripping can save you a lot of money.

Rachel Lipsey

We're under a burn ban. Everything is so dry. And even if you have just a small fire, everyone has their windows open with the power out. The smoke comes in and you smell up everything.

Mark Mitchell

There are a lot of enhancements that maybe they should have done a year ago [in Windows XP]. There are a lot of things that needed to be put in for a while, and if [Vista] works as advertised, it ought to be very helpful to consumers.

Rob Ayoub

I don't think the fact that it was a funeral home created any particular challenges. There are no ghosts, although we had a couple of new windows break, and we don't know why.

Joe Hutton

For a while the press and the market was preoccupied with this question about whether Linux was going to kill Windows and whether Linux fundamentally introduced a value proposition was going to pull users away from Microsoft. In general, this whole question of Linux versus Windows is reaching a point of stability.

Tony Iams

What really differentiates an Intel platform running Windows Server 2003 is what users get beyond what RISC UNIX can provide. Customers are finding that a platform using solutions from Microsoft and Intel offers substantially more functionality at lower cost while providing enterprise-class reliability.

Boyd Davis

By the end of last year, there were more than 200 million PCs connected to the Internet. Ninety percent of these are Windows machines running the same applications, such as Word, Microsoft Exchange, and Excel.

Carey Nachenberg

There are more effective and better types of windows to prevent people leaving. This is one of the easiest types of window to climb out of.

Richard Bishop

The simple answer is, you've got to check the windows.

Wes Kooistra

Cisco's and Nortel's systems use Windows, which has so many umbrellas on top to make it look simple. But it's complicated underneath, and it's vulnerable to viruses. Unix is a more perfected and hardened OS than Windows.

Bob Inpyn

If I couldn't stand Skylab, ... I definitely couldn't stand the sight of people jumping out of windows and then letters with anthrax postmarked from Trenton.

John Witherspoon

If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.

Malcolm Gladwell

It's not out of the question that DVDs could be released in the same windows as theatrical release.

Bob Iger

Windows XP is indeed friendly and rational, and its minor inconveniences are normal in a new product.

Francesco Cossiga

Microsoft has a cornerstone on a market that nobody's buying. Microsoft has all these consumer initiatives, but nobody really wants Windows CE.

Jill House

All the glass from the shop windows just fell to the ground and people ran out of the pub. It was just a mass of panic.

Nikki Cox

We would like to get the buildings into good enough shape so tourists and children can enjoy looking at them. At some point, we would like to even furnish them in a period manner. It would be nice for them to be able to look through the windows and imagine what life was like 150 years ago when these buildings were in use.

Susan Kosoris

It's a difficult ballpark for a large walk-up. We look at this as an extension of our windows. It allows us to have the ability to move people into the ballpark more quickly when we see it's getting backed up.

Jim Alexander

Before we sat down to negotiate this degree, the government had subpoenaed documents that showed Microsoft had begun including integrated Internet technology into Windows 95 as early as the fall of 1993.

William Neukom

The new section will be completely partitioned off from the rest of the store. Of course, we plan to tint the windows, and there will be no way for other customers to see into the adult section.

Jeremy Couley

Last quarter there was $1.5 billion in Linux server sales as an industry, with Linux server revenue growing eight times that of the overall server market at 42 percent, versus five percent growth for the total sever market. That growth was also more than four times that of Microsoft's Windows Server, which gained 10 percent.

Scott Handy

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.

Andy Gibb

The work that Microsoft has done to enhance scalability and reliability with the Datacenter edition of Windows 2000 will place the company in more direct competition with Sun and other UNIX players. We are cautiously optimistic that it will provide better scalability and stability than earlier versions of Windows, but the jury is still out on whether it can beat UNIX environments.

David Cearley

If the ruling is upheld, Microsoft would have to withdraw its current version of Windows from South Korea. There would no longer be a single consistent version of Windows globally. Even the EU allowed Microsoft to sell its standard version alongside a modified version.

Dion Wiggins

We are expecting the company to report $6.5 billion (5 percent top-line growth) and 41 cents a share. Everything turns on guidance for the second fiscal quarter, and how the Windows 2000 rollout will look for next year.

Michael Stanek

By running Windows Vista this way, Apple can offer the most secure version of Vista available with the lowest Total Cost of Ownership, which could lead to a leadership change in business computing.

Robert X. Cringely

The stained-glass windows are original, although we had to have this little transom restored.

Gail Henry

Microsoft's whole company's practice had been based on doing a great job on Windows and leaving integration with other operating systems to the third-party partners. Now they are trying not to make decisions that make it harder to manage other platforms.

Peter Pawlak

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Comic characters have to have some kind of life breathed into them, and I'm never exactly sure how that's done, but you can tell when it works and when it doesn't. There's nothing worse than looking at a comic when somebody doesn't have that. It's like looking at store windows or something.

Daniel Clowes

Up to now, I've been able to avoid Windows NT because the computers that control the power system are for the most part VAXes. But as more things we use, such as time sheets and discrepancy reports, migrate to the NT network, I'll need to do NT. I don't know what will happen; all I can do is try.

Michael Freeman

Our mission for Windows Live is to enable customers to easily find the information, pursue the interests and deepen the relationships that enrich their lives.

Blake Irving

When they busted out the windows, there was black smoke shooting out through the top. It was just terrible.

Christine Goodman

It's kind of bringing Oracle out of the Stone Age of a character mode interface into the modern world where you can actually see your tables in a Windows Explorer-style format.

Mike Hichwa

Yes we are aware of some of the information floating around about problems after installing the MS05-051 update on Windows 2000 systems.

Mike Reavey

We get the feeling on the other side of our computer that no one is looking back at us through windows, and yet, everybody could be.

Michael Bugeja

It reinforces the appeal of Windows Mobile in the enterprise. What this might suggest is that people do want to use their mobile devices for more than email, so enterprises may need to examine their options more closely in the future.

Tony Cripps

There hasn't been a [Windows] directory before, there's just been trees and network diagrams and information about who is on your network. This conversion will require people to really do some work.

Dana Gardner

Try to distract yourself from it. Even if it means closing the shades to your windows. It's the ostrich syndrome. If you can't see it, you don't have to think about it.

Peter Whitney

We will design and license Windows and our Internet-based services as separate products, so customers can choose Windows with or without Microsoft's services, ... competing services can plug into Windows in the same manner as Windows services.

Ray Ozzie

Forrester believes that firms are more interested in stability and consistency in the PC environment than in new features. And Windows XP meets the vast majority of its users needs.

Simon Yates

We're investing in a wide range of models. The new kind of applications ISVs (independent software vendors) can make (with Windows Vista) will be dramatically different from what's possible with the Web application model. I think it's clearly differentiated.

Greg Sullivan

One of the big reasons Windows was a success was because Office was built on it. We think we [Sparkle] will be one of the big reasons the new [WPF] platform will be a success.

John Gossman

We want to hit a 50 percent run rate for Windows Vista premium in the first 24 months. That's a substantially more aggressive run rate than we were able to hit with Windows XP.

Dave Block

We already went over budget with our windows we put in, so this is great, it will be put to good use. I love the idea of the bonus pool and toward the end it was getting very competitive. I hope it returns next year.

Beezie Madden

A glassy mountain range of exposed offices; on a clear day you can look through the windows and see as many as 6,000 coffee breaks at once.

Frederic Morton

Look at these windows, you can see where people scratched dates into them with diamonds.

Donald P. Quinn

Today we can build rich interactive sites [with] ASP.Net and Community Server, but it's time-consuming with handoffs between creative and development. Our creative team uses Macs and Windows today but they would prefer to use only Windows. If Microsoft can execute on their vision of simplifying the process of building rich interactive applications, they'll get adoption.

Rob Howard

We've actually had to pull out the stops and have supervisors working the windows and pull in everyone who can give a drive exam and try to accommodate them.

Kevin Malone

We see a resurgence in the Mac platform on the desktop. You'll see us deliver the richest client on both Windows and the Mac with full fidelity.

Ken Bisconti

If you look at the floor plan you will see no windows in the display areas.

Gabriel Brisbois

That leaves us with the foundation, roof, electrical, plumbing, insulation, Sheetrock, windows, doors and exterior siding.

Jim Pate

That guy is a star there. We were walking down the street and people were leaning out of their windows saying, 'Bruce Pearl for governor.' They love him up there.

Cameron Tatum

With fire you can teach people forever about the dangers of fire and still see people in their grand cars throwing cigarette butts out of windows and those are the people with degrees, so-called well-educated people.

Fanie Bekker

The windows, the roof. There's a tree in my house.

Jason Glenn

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

We're happy that Microsoft has made some changes to Windows XP, but we still believe Microsoft is giving its own applications preferential treatment.

Anthony Sanzio

If you like to sit on the porch, to garden, or to leave your windows open at night, it's going to affect you.

Robby Davis

In the way of virus protection and security, I keep my laptop updated. I download Windows updates and use Norton [Virus Protection].

Chris Elder

When you're in a mood to spend money on something that will not further your goal of getting out of debt, ask if you want it or need it - and if you don't, ask if you want it badly enough to further the bad feelings created by being in debt. Try to stay away from the stores, and don't look in the windows.

Gay Abarbanell

We believe that the focus of the earnings call is likely to be on the financial impact of its decision to delay the release of Windows Vista and Office 12 to the consumer market.

Byung hyun Kim

As the Web becomes the most important way of computing, going forward, Windows will fall by the wayside. By the year 2002, there will be 2 billion devices connected to the Internet and only 10 percent of them will be running Windows.

Mark Jarvis

The scope of the affected platform is exactly the same, and these services are run by default on Windows 2000. In terms of ease of exploitation, they're not incredibly difficult to exploit, but they're not as easy as the Plug and Play vulnerability.

Neel Mehta

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

Benjamin Britten

DOS had 10 years, Windows has had the last 10 years and now it's time for Linux.

Michael Cowpland

Now we have windows, but not history.

Marlan Webb

The tunnel where we were trapped was about 60 square meters, like a big room with no windows. Fortunately, we found air blowing in from one of the two ventilation pipes, one of which was already broken. We also collected the water left in the drilling machine and a broken pipeline.

Li Yong

[He described the efforts the Manganos and their children made to rescue patients after the nursing home flooded, getting them onto mattresses to float out through broken windows, and then into boats.] They saved 52 lives, ... And their reward . . . is an arrest warrant.

James Cobb

If we are not in each other's suites, we are always yelling out the windows into the courtyard at one another.

Ashley Walker

Compared to earlier versions of Windows, there are a third less vulnerabilities because of the security development work we have done — and half the number of critical vulnerabilities.

Debby Fry Wilson

With Windows 2000 revenues not really kicking in until 2001 and the continued weakness of the business PC sales impacting Microsoft's core business, we expect the fourth quarter to be lackluster, coming in slightly above the third quarter.

Melissa Eisenstat