#microsoft

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#applications #basically #both #business #completely

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#because #competitor #covered #data #dive

Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#certain #comes #company #development #enormous

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

#anyone #around #concede #consumer #experience

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

— Andy Hertzfeld

#eventually #gold #grabbed #guess #hands

If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life. ↗

— Jack Ma

#cannot #i #life #microsoft #my life

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#bill gates #crew #database #decided #ellison

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#antitrust #case #courts #currently #federal

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#crappy #evil #just #make #microsoft

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple. ↗

— Tim Cook

#apple #does #i #microsoft #pressure