Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That’s the Russian interest in this process.
I think they should separate Microsoft’s application group from its operating system group.
Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10 as the first apparent step towards locking down the consumer PC ecosystem and monopolising app distribution and commerce.
You think Bill Gates would have dropped out of Harvard and toiled away creating Microsoft if he thought the government was going to take most of the company? Or Steve Jobs – drop out of Stanford to create Apple?
I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
I feel like it really marks a new era for Microsoft under Satya Nadella, Alex Kipman, Phil Spencer, and a number of other people who are really committed to the platform being a healthy ecosystem for everybody and not just an extracted business like you see on the Facebook or Google side.
You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You’ll know it when you hit a home run.
I have been able to attend many technology conferences around the world over the years, including some of the largest, like Google I/O, Microsoft’s Developer Conference, Apple’s WorldWide Developers Conference, Oracle World, Le Web, and more.
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.
Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.
I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.
Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst.
Anybody who ever left Microsoft to Amazon, we could count on them coming back within a year or two, because it’s not a great place to work to do innovative stuff as an engineer.
Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our ‘personal assistant.’ They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
Facebook collects a lot of data from people and admits it. And it also collects data which isn’t admitted. And Google does too. As for Microsoft, I don’t know. But I do know that Windows has features that send data about the user.
Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.
I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.
The fact is… our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft’s business practices.
Microsoft’s an important partner for Dell, an important company in the industry.
I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows – it’s so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it’s so obviously a sham.
Microsoft is in a lot of the same businesses that Google is in.
The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.
