Jim Allchin Quotes

We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries.

When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that's not tied directly into the Windows platform.

I feel lucky because earlier in my career, I found what I liked to do; it's build software that you see your friends using on the street, and they like it.

Everybody who wants to join 'WhatsApp', we'll go out of our way to build a really awesome client for them.

'Instagram' reached 13 million users in just 13 months.

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

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.

The single most important thing for any processor is getting adoption by software developers.

We have the capital, the resources, and the technology that we need to build a mobile advertising platform across the planet.

As software began to be sold to people who would never consider themselves technical, it suddenly became clear that you needed people who spoke their language.

I've gone on record to say that I'm proud of the PC version of Daikatana and I stand behind that.

I would love to see all open-source innovation happen on top of Windows.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.

Laziness is a programmers main virtue.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

One of the reasons I like open source is that it allows people to work on the parts they are good at, and I don't mean just on a technical level; some people are into the whole selling and support, and that's just not me.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

At the end of the day, how many ads did it take to convince you to use Facebook or Twitter? It wasn't marketing or advertising that convinced you to use these services. It was their value.

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.