Walt Mossberg Quotes

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

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.

Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.

The Windows 95 launch was such an incredible experience.

To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming

The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making Bill Gates even richer than he already was.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs.

I can't say that I like MicroSoft: I think they make rather bad operating systems - Windows NT is just more of the same - but while I dislike their operating systems and abhor their tactics in the marketplace I at the same time don't really care all that much about them.

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.

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

People everywhere love Windows.

Microsoft loves Linux.

I'm a Windows guy. I have been for many, many years. I play games, and it's where games run, baby.

Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales.

The whole thought of a career with computers - given that hardly anybody even knew what they were - it wasn't even a concept.

We've had a relationship with Microsoft for a while. It's bigger than just Xbox - we use Azure for some of our cloud stuff. PC Windows is a very big platform for us as well.

Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)

If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.