#microsoft

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

— Anatoly Chubais

#bill gates #finds #gates #hire #interest

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

#competition #different #especially #goals #i

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#business #companies #defend #doors #down

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#beyond #competition #engaging #fair #go

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

#building #came #did #good #i

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

— Roberta Williams

#always #apple #back #both #computer

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

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

#business model #change #company #continue #going

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

#actually #applications #extract #feel #going

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth – and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#macintosh #microsoft #business