Bill Gates Quotes

[I]t's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, "Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough." It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, "Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it."

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you're interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. ... Let's be realistic, who came up with "File/Edit/View/Help"? Do you want to go back to the original Mac and think about where those interface concepts came from?

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.

I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be.

If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.

Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it — at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air.

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' — that might be spam.

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

We don't have the user centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence — presence is the most trivial notion, just am I on this device or not; it doesn't say am I meeting with something, am I focused on writing something.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.