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

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

Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.
Rob Glaser

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

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.
Tom Lantos

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

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
Roberta Williams

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.
John W. Thompson

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.
Linus Torvalds

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

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

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

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
Tim O'Reilly

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.
Tim O'Reilly

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

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
Steve Wozniak

I'm just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell.
Dennis Ritchie

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
Linus Torvalds

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
Larry Ellison

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
Ralph Nader