product development Quotes

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

Make it just like a Mac.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA... ...

The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products.

We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is... ...

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.