I’m going to f – ing kill Google.
And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that’s there.
There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.
I don’t really know that anybody’s proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back the scope of our ambition or the scale of our investment. While our opportunities are greater than ever, we also face new competitors, faster-moving markets and new customer demands.
I’m going to f – ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to f – ing kill Google.
The most common format of music on an iPod is ‘stolen.’
I don’t know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.
Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.
Eventually the Internet will be accessed by PC, television, and wireless devices.
Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.
500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.
I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod.
I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.
There’s a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we’re going to compete, we’re going to compete very, very hard.
We’re going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.
The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They’re a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It’s filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers.
All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.