Bill Gates Operating Quotations

The appeals court already has affirmed Microsoft's right to build Internet capabilities into the Windows operating system to benefit consumers.

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

All operating systems, including IBM's, Sun's, Apple's and many others are including Internet browsing capabilities, ... The beauty of the Internet is its openness. It cannot be controlled or dominated or cut off because it is simply a constantly changing series of linkages.

That kernel operating system ... is not the key area, it is the software you have to buy on top of that to deal with management, security and directories and things like that.

If improving a product based on customer input is willful maintenance of trying to stay in business and not have Netscape turn their browser into the most popular operating system, then I think that is what we are supposed to do.