Microsoft Quotes

“What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
― Bill Gates

“In nature, waste does not exist. There is only production and consumption; there is only creation and utilization. Everything that's produced is efficiently consumed. Everything that's created is efficiently utilized. And this cyclicality results in growth and in profit. The same should be true of each business, and the same should be true of an economy.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“A lot can be learned from the big companies of today. Companies like Amazon have revolutionized logistics, companies like Tesla have revolutionized sustainable systems, companies like Microsoft and Google have revolutionized data mining and data distribution, companies like Maersk have revolutionized Supply Chains, companies like Gardein and Beyond Meat have revolutionized food. Every company can serve as a case study of some kind with various lessons that can be learned.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“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

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we love helping businesses adapt to change. We all live and work in a dynamic and ever-changing economy. The businesses that are able to adapt, pivot and restructure are the businesses that are most positioned to thrive through the changes.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Fun fact: when Microsoft asked their users what they wanted added to Office, they found 90% of the requested features were already there.”
― Des Traynor

“Using Microsoft Windows 10 has been marked by extremely poor computer performance whenever background updates are in progress.”
― Steven Magee

“I have three Microsoft Windows 10 computers with 4GB of RAM and Intel processors: 1. The first was a free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and is unusable. 2. The second is a Windows 10 computer with a Celeron processor and is unusable whenever background updates are in progress. 3. The third is a Windows 10 computer with a i3 processor and runs really slow when background updates are in progress. Both Windows 10 computers suffer from horrible lag in normal use.”
― Steven Magee

“People identify some of the greatest brands today with the people who revolutionized the industries of those businesses: Microsoft – Bill Gates, Apple – Steve Jobs, GE – Jack Welch, and so on.”
― Omar Al Busaidy, Just Read It

“I am not angry at Microsoft, as they did give me Windows 10 for free! I do feel a little misled about its reliability on older computers never certified for its installation by the manufacturer though.”
― Steven Magee

“You'll have the right to be angry about Vault 7 only after you boycott dragnet surveillance data providers like Google, Microsoft, Skype, Facebook and LinkedIn. The true threat is coming from the private sector surveillance profiteers.”
― James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“If it weren‘t for Asperger‘s and obsessions there would be no Theory of Relativity, no Magic Flute, no Microsoft…and no Ghost Busters.”
― Rudy Simone, Aspergirls

“Моят подход е да ръководя с чувство за цел и гордост от онова, което правим, а не посредством завист или боричкане.”
― Сатя Надела, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

“Instead of thinking of you working for Microsoft, think of how Microsoft can work for you.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

“This culture [Microsoft's culture] needs to be a microcosm of the world we hope to create outside the company. One where builders, makers, and creators achieve great things. But, equally important, one where every individual can be their best self, where diversity of skin color, gender, religion, and sexual orientation is understood and celebrated.”
― Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

“I rate Microsoft windows 10 at one level above a nasty computer virus.”
― Steven Magee

“Windows 10, why are you so mean to me?”
― Steven Magee

“Windows 10 scrolling blue circle, why are you so mean to me?”
― Steven Magee

“Windows 10 is reliably unreliable.”
― Steven Magee

“Historians will remember the first year of Microsoft Windows 10 for its willful vandalism of many computers through the release of a flawed operating system (OS) and mandatory flaky automatic updates.”
― Steven Magee

“As an engineer, I am chained to the Microsoft Windows operating system because most computer peripherals only come with Windows drivers.”
― Steven Magee

“From the outset, I have always thought that Microsoft Windows 10 was a substandard product that should never have been released.”
― Steven Magee

“The company's stellar growth revived more than a few economic sectors, as well as a few neighborhoods.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

“Growth is good, at least for those doing the growing.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

“I once worked on a project in which a software product originally written for UNIX was being redesigned and implemented on Windows NT. Most of the programming team consisted of programmers who had great facility with Windows and Microsoft Visual C++. In no time at all, it seemed, they had generated many screens full of windows and toolbars and dialogues, all with connections to networks and data sources, thousands and thousands of lines of code. But when the inevitable difficulties of debugging came, they seemed at sea. In the face of the usual weird and and unexplainable outcomes, they stood agog. It was left to the UNIX-trained programmers to fix things. The UNIX team members were accustomed to not knowing. Their view of programming as language-as-text gave them the patience to look slowly through the code. In the end, the overall 'productivity' of the system, the fact that it came into being at all, was not the handiwork of tools that sought to make programming seem easy, but the work of engineers who had no fear of 'hard.”
― Ellen Ullman, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

“I am not buying another Microsoft Windows computer until entry level models have at least 8 processors and 8GB RAM.”
― Steven Magee

“For less than the cost of a standard Windows license, you can download GNU tools and a fresh Linux kernel or good free software which you will enjoy much more.”
― Richard Stallman, Contra el Copyright

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