I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect.
Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence
Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free
I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.
They said these North Korean missiles had enough range to hit Seattle, but residents in Seattle were not worried. Today Bill Gates said Microsoft has enough missiles to destroy North Korea ten times over.
I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.
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)
It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.
Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.
Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth. "
To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.
When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision.
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.
Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.
Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.