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James Edward Allchin (born 1951, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States) is an American blues rock guitarist, philanthropist, and a former Microsoft executive.

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Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.

Customers, Jobs, Likely, Order, Want

I continue to see good growth in the mobile space; I expect to see PCs being the core driver in the home. And I mean that for entertainment along with the work-at-home space.

Core, Good, Home, Mean, Space

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go. . . At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

Believer, Desktop, Icons, Technology, Way

We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.

Business, Marketing, Product, Sells, Think, Thinking

I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.

Capability, Continue, Healthy, Machines

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

Distinction, Operating, Operating Systems, Running, System, Top

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

Buy, Macs, Microsoft, Today, Working

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

Angry, Needs, Reason, Smile, Waste

We can build a better product than Linux.

Build, Linux, Product, Products

Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.

Destroyer, Imagine, Intellectual, Open, Source

Today, the PC is often still considered just a tool, but together we need to make it a lot more than that. We need to make it a path to experiences.

Needs, Today, Together, Tool, Tools

Apple really has no presence in business, and we think Vista's going to have a huge presence in business. We think we're going to help the corporate IT stack save money.

Apples, Helping, Presence, Stack, Think, Thinking

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