Craig Mundie Quotations

If they slide too far, they'll find themselves in the same situation as the Xbox did when they launched the PS2 a year before we entered. That's a hill to climb.

Microsoft has no beef with open source, ... We happen to like and will continue to pursue commercial software as a business model Microsoft believes in. Ultimately, the market will tell us if that choice is a good one.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.

Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

We are choosing to invest in health now for a variety of reasons. Advances in technology hold huge promise for changing people's lives globally -- both those who are sick and those who are well. Peter Neupert brings a mix of business leadership and expertise in the health field to guide Microsoft's work in this area.

We think the big deal here is to give a lot more people access to a level of computation that was not available before.

could be a serious problem downstream in the society here.

There's a critical need to attract the best people in the world.

As we've learned ? or really re-learned ? one can't build a business or our economic future on that type of flimsy foundation.

I love what Nick is trying to do. We have a lot of concerns about the sustainability of his approach.

India produces a lot of engineers. But the production of computer science engineers is low, pro rata. Computer engineers are more into theory and less in managing businesses, building businesses or writing source codes, the key to software development,

But it is always a challenge to commercialize those inventions.

The Internet ... was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer,