Steve Ballmer Windows Quotations

Microsoft's collaboration with Cable & Wireless and Compaq will mean great new integrated messaging and collaboration tools, ... By basing a range of new services on the Windows platform, Cable & Wireless, Compaq and Microsoft will enable more reliable and more efficient IT services for small and medium-sized businesses.

We recognize that some provisions in our existing Windows licenses have been ruled improper by the court, so we are providing computer manufacturers with greater flexibility and we are doing this immediately so that computer manufacturers can take advantage of them in planning for the upcoming release of Windows XP,

With 18 per cent computer penetration in Malaysia, we hope that the new affordable multilingual Windows XP Starter Edition will attract more people in using computers, especially in their own native language.

The stuff AOL is doing now is unbelievably egregious. They're trying to get personal computer companies to delete features of Windows and not let people have the choice of using our software,

We need to deliver a breakthrough version of Windows that allows PCs and servers to support these next-generation services and host them out there on the Internet,

Our customers have been intimately involved in the development process for Windows 2000 since its inception, and they expect nothing less than the highest-quality, most reliable platform on which to run their businesses.

There's no mission critical enterprise job today you should feel uncomfortable running on the Microsoft platform. There is no job that's too big to run on Microsoft and the Windows platform.

This year we are really ramping up the energy with a new ad campaign around Windows Mobile. We are launching new versions of Outlook and Exchange and one of the top priorities of our sales force will be to drive Windows Mobile into the enterprise to allow things to flourish.

This agreement is a significant milestone for consumers and content owners, since it will greatly extend the reach and flexibility of digital entertainment in the home. By integrating our Windows Media(R) platform technologies with the DIRECTV service, we have created a pipeline for an incredible variety of premium digital entertainment to move seamlessly and securely throughout the home to anywhere a DIRECTV customer wants to enjoy it.

There's a lot of work that needs to happen. And as the Internet makes this transition, and as we try to transition our business with it, we know we need to have the same kind of long-term approach and patience that we had with Windows itself,