Adam Sohn Quotations

Would we prefer that our people put patches in on the same day they come out? Sure. It's hard to give you an absolute certainty that the patch had been applied across the board. Given today's incident, our security teams are going back to check out the systems.

We are very focused on securing and maintaining the servers on our network. From a security standpoint, there should be no difference between servers.

We did comply with their request for data in regards to helping protect children in a way that ensured we also protected the privacy of our customers. We were able to share aggregated query data, not search results, that did not include any personally identifiable information at their request.

For us it's not a big change -- there's always been competition out there. This is further evidence to bolster what we've said all along -- that there are tons of companies trying to provide better technology to customers.

For us it's not a big change -- there's always been competition out there,

If someone comes up with a super-hot idea ... we'll have a bunch of researchers who can take those ideas, get them prototyped and see if there's a real, healthy business there.

If someone comes up with a super-hot idea, we'll have a bunch of researchers and developers who can take those ideas, get them prototyped and see if there's a real, healthy business there.

What we want to do is attract people into the (MSN) network,

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

Rob Glaser went before the U.S. Senate and said, 'Windows is breaking my software, let me tell you how.' In fact, it does not.

Like when you go into business in any country, you do it in full compliance with the laws and regulations of that country. It's not something we think twice about.

Microsoft typically does not comment on specific government inquiries. That said, as you may have heard from the DOJ, they did contact us in this case. We take the privacy of our customers very seriously. We did comply with their request for data in this case in a way that ensured we also protected the privacy of our customers.

We investigated this report. He was able to exploit a known security flaw that we were able to patch. The patch had not yet applied to the server.

We think we need to evolve the platform and development story to keep pace with developers who want to build these experiences that reach across the Internet. The more applications, the more value to the user and the more people gravitate to our platform.

The partnership allows us to focus on growing the online venture.

The government is clearly as adept a PR machine as there ever was one.

To some degree I think David felt comfortable enough with the state of things at MSN that now's the time.

We simply thought that the technology was not ready and was in need of additional work toward better and more complete integration with the document object model and with HTML.

We tried to resolve this out of court, ... They made an offer to sell us these things for tens of thousands of dollars. We said 'no way.'

We're disappointed. As soon as they went public with the tool that exploits the issue, they put millions of IIS servers in jeopardy. We would rather to have had this fixed before they disclosed this problem to the world.

Everyone wants to single out MSN versus somebody.

These are tools that help people better visualize and connect to the information they care about.

Ten years ago it was a venture to really think deeply about how you merge traditional media with new media. It made sense at the time.

Once you sell it, it's sold. Anything that would let the previous owner come back and make demands is not something we'd agree to.

This company doesn't put up with this kind of stuff -- intentionally or otherwise. There is nothing sinister or intentional going on here.

This action will not have any impact on the release date of Windows 98. We expect it to ship as scheduled on June 25.

This is an effort to formalize an organization that can respond to rapid prototyping and applied research where you can connect deep computer science to the products on Internet time. Many of these projects will be about bolstering investments in services. It's clear this religion that services are an integral part of the experience is spreading through the company.

They had nothing to do with each other. It's like comparing apples and oranges.

For a lot of users, it will feel like infinite scroll.

It makes sense for both parties to focus on what's core.

It's possible for folks to ask customers to give them more data, but we will make it very clear what information goes to Passport and what goes to the partners,

Everyone likes to write that the game is over -- but it is still early. The story is that people are finally lining up in the starting blocks.

It's been floating around in one form or another. It is sort of an unfortunate consequence of the freedom the Internet offers.

I'm not going to react to the judge. That would be counterproductive in general.

If you ask our customers, they prefer we take a couple of extra days before we post a patch rather than have the public know about the problem.

Instead of there being one big cloud or datacenter being hosted by Microsoft, there will be multiple smaller clouds hosting these services such as ISPs and other providers right out of the box.

But, to date, the Liberty Alliance has delivered no technology at all, ... It's just delivered a bunch of statements by Microsoft competitors that somehow some unannounced technology is better than proprietary technology, when in fact Passport is totally on path, announced in public to embrace an open industry standard that anybody can implement on.

The goal is to work towards rapidly prototyping new products and services.