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“In a sense this is the end of an era. Microsoft and the original PC rose to prominence based on the MS-DOS product. And even as Windows came along, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, underneath MS-DOS was running there. Windows simply sat on top of MS-DOS. Well, so today it really is actually the end of the MS-DOS era. It's also, we would say, the end of the Windows 95 era.”
Bill Gates
“Microsoft, through the proliferation of Windows, has been the conventional vendor that most of those businesses turn to. Microsoft has done pretty well at it. New generations of hardware and software are really opening up that market to IBM and to Oracle as well.”
Charles King
“If Microsoft broke some laws...”
Craig Barrett
“There is a lot at stake for Microsoft. If this were to become a tremendously successful initiative, it could perhaps open the floodgates to other governments and business enterprises doing the same thing.”
David Smith
“Open source remains an issue for Microsoft. But I think the biggest threat is from Linux.”
“Intel and Microsoft are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make that happen. They're smart companies. They make intelligent bets.”
David Stern
“Next week is the big one for earnings. You've got Microsoft, Intel, all the banks.”
Donald Selkin
“Microsoft is the wild card in all this.”
Gene Munster
“I think Microsoft would like to wait until after the election, and maybe if George W. Bush wins, they could get treated better by a Bush Justice Department. I think they're delusional if they think that's going to get them out of their problem, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's in the backs of their minds.”
Greg Valliere
“It has obviously taken longer for Microsoft to release a patch for the WMF flaw on the Vista platform than current versions of Windows, but that's because Vista isn't yet released and it was a higher priority to protect the shipping versions of Windows.”
Graham Cluley
