In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down. – Jose Antonio Vargas
Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there’s an ad for them. – Jim Cramer
What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving – incrementally improving things that already exist – and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside. – Alan Cooper
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That’s the Russian interest in this process. – Anatoly Chubais
I’m just an observer of Java, and where Microsoft wants to go with C# is too early to tell. – Dennis Ritchie
There’s more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table. – David Einhorn
If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about. – Leroy Hood
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided. – Ted Nelson
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. – Steve Ballmer
Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like. – Tim O’Reilly
Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas. – Safra A. Catz