“I find it a little bit comical that Microsoft is going with the lower number, which I applaud, and yet the analysts still want to stick to the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, higher pro forma number.”
Alex Vallecillo
“I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”
Steve Jobs
“[Then again, Microsoft is so vehemently competitive that it could yet prevail in videogames, searching and servers. Microsoft is] the world's largest startup, ... No one seems to feel comfortable in their own skin here. It's weird. They still need to succeed.”
Ray Ozzie
“We certainly better meet expectations, if not exceed. If Microsoft reports soft numbers, it will put a pale on the market for the next six months.”
Warren Simpson
“If you run Windows on a Mac, it's another copy for Microsoft. Better yet, it's on a competitor's hardware. It would be like Microsoft taking it to Apple's home field.”
Joe Wilcox
“The first-quarter numbers were as advertised. The longer-term story for Microsoft hasn't changed. Estimates beyond the second quarter haven't changed.”
Tim Allen
“Microsoft has complied with our request, as has Yahoo and AOL. We have not analyzed the data yet.”
Charles Miller
