Walt Mossberg Quotes

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

All through the 1980s, Apple kept its prices high. There were many reasons Microsoft's much bigger user base managed to resist moving to the GUI - but price was high among them.

We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.

Microsoft has been taking a series of steps for a while now to close down the Windows ecosystem. They can't do it all at once, because there would be an industry uproar. But one little step at a time, they're trying to take it all over.

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.

It's like PlayStation-Xbox. I like both. So nothing against Mac, but I do use Windows.

I think the idealism has always been marketing. Even back in the early days of Apple and the 'pirate' mentality, they were building a computer that they wanted to differentiate from IBM and Microsoft.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

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

In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.

I moved to San Francisco to work at Apple's Cupertino office in the summer of 2006, then stayed on remotely in a part-time job back in Austin. It was an internship with iTunes. I helped them launch new features as well as new marketing programs. I also helped program the iTunes Store every week, working on which artists and albums got featured.

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.

What's always intriguing to me is transforming my subjects into a character from another era.

We will not continue to be in the post-'79 era. That age is over.

I've spent a career working in tech as a software engineer. And I believe regulated markets are the best way to build and deliver innovative products.

If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

I believe Microsoft has every right to operate a PC app store and to curate it how they choose.

Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.

Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are building their own versions of the future. And they get bigger and bigger.

The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.