When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on [...]
Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.
People everywhere love Windows.
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary [...]
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
DOS is ugly and interferes [...]
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Just in terms of allocation of time [...]
I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
If GM had kept up with technology like the [...]