Steve Ballmer Quotes

We've had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is "stolen".

We are in the Windows era — we were, we are, and we always will be.

Most people still steal music.

When we tell the story about what's happening today with browsers ten years from now, I want the thing that replaces Windows to be Windows. I don't want to wake up in a position one day where the guys at Netscape say, "Isn't Windows just that little thing that we use to put up menus and draw lines? Let's just write our own and suck it up into our client."

Not the consumer cloud. Not hardware-software innovation. We are not leaving any of that to Apple by itself. Not going to happen. Not on our watch.

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.

Whatever device you use... Windows will be there. … Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise.

You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.