Bill Gates Microsoft Quotations

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.

Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company

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)

Microsoft Products are Generally Bug Free

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

The Internet? We are not interested in it

Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

Well before the case was filed Microsoft did everything it could to try and settle the case. In fact, there were about 10 days when day and night I was on the phone and made every effort I could.

There is competition, ... Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.

We need to move beyond voice to voice and data, ... Microsoft can do this by bringing all the pieces together. And once we do, we are really going to surprise people.

No one should think that shareholder value would be preserved ... Microsoft would be greatly damaged by this kind of split.

I am here to share my story and answer questions about Microsoft and the PC industry, ... I hope that my testimony helps the court to resolve the issues in this case. That would be best for consumers and the industry, and that's why I am here.

It is a great pleasure for me to announce that Steve Ballmer -- my long-term partner in building Microsoft and a great business leader -- is being named CEO,

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

Microsoft is committed to playing its role by making a broad set of investments in the country. Just less than a year ago, when I met with the prime minister, we made some very concrete commitments about increased investment, and I'm pleased to see that all of those have come to pass and they've all been very successful.

Microsoft has not treated us as a customer.

Microsoft has been in India for 15 years now, and our commitment continues to grow. India's exceptional IT talent and vibrant local ISV industry is helping to empower a truly global knowledge economy.

Microsoft and MTV Networks have combined their strengths to dramatically redefine how Windows users discover and enjoy music.

Microsoft is running its entire business, Exchange Server and SAP, and everything on Windows 2000,

While Microsoft does not share all of Sun's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

When Dr. Lee was an employee at Microsoft, I thought of him as trustworthy, ... There were a lot of things around his leaving Microsoft that I wouldn't have expected.

We think we'll revolutionize how people do things in the workplace by bringing streaming media and Microsoft Office together in a combined vision,

The government is going to file a lawsuit. Microsoft is innocent of any of these charges and we're certainly going to defend ourselves vigorously,

could be read to ban Microsoft from competing in any product category. I know such a ban would be unreasonable, and yet that is what the language of Section 8 appears to provide for.

These proposals will have a chilling effect on innovation in the high technology industry, ... Microsoft could never have developed Windows under these rules. Looking forward, this kind of regulation would make it impossible for Microsoft to develop the next generation of great software.

Demands that Microsoft completely hide its Windows user interface and its Internet technology from PC users, and that we ship Netscape's competing software in every copy of Windows, all appear to benefit a single competitor at the expense of consumers,

As a leader in the computing industry, Microsoft has a responsibility to help its customers address these concerns, so they no longer have to choose between security and usability. This is a long-term effort.

There will be competitors for Microsoft and for Israeli companies coming out of those countries although today the success, particularly in India, has mostly been in the software services area, outsourcing work, doing call centers and things like that,

It's unfortunate that a settlement wasn't possible, ... Microsoft certainly went the extra mile.

It's a major milestone. The settlement puts new responsibilities on Microsoft and we accept them. I am personally committed to full compliance. We are committed to being a responsible industry leader.

The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.

I never expected Microsoft to be so successful, ... We're not ashamed that we've taken the low-price, high-volume approach here, which is different than the competitors, who are trying to get a leg-up from the government.

In a sense this is the end of an era. Microsoft and the original PC rose to prominence based on the MS-DOS product. And even as Windows came along, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, underneath MS-DOS was running there. Windows simply sat on top of MS-DOS. Well, so today it really is actually the end of the MS-DOS era. It's also, we would say, the end of the Windows 95 era.

If you look at our investment in the next version of Windows, security would jump out as the thing we've spent the most time on. Microsoft has a big responsibility here.

Hey, I never told anyone to buy my stock! Besides, no one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year-if you check, you'll see that that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

The growth in employment for Microsoft will be more in India than in the United States.

The introduction of the hand-held PC with Windows CE is a critical milestone in Microsoft 's continuing strategy to bring the popularity and ease of use to Windows to new categories of information devices,