David Baszucki Quotes

Microsoft loves Linux.

When we think about Windows, we want to think of it as a broad platform, from wearables to industrial IoT platforms to PCs and tablets.

To me, this is the perfect marriage. There's no friction. There's just, we have what they need, they have what we need. And so IBM is in the process, with our help, of designing many different apps for many different verticals.

I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.

I think reconceptualizing Microsoft as a devices and services company is absolutely what our vision is all about. Office 365 and Azure on the services side are representative of it.

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak.

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.

I think a lot of the time there isn't such a black-and-white difference between what's a platform and what's an app. It's really just like the most important apps become platforms.

Planes don't fly, trains don't run, banks don't operate without much of what IBM does.

Microsoft has no SQL Server developers. We have only Azure developers.

Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.

Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.

We're thrilled that our partnership with Adobe has now grown to span our three clouds - Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 - providing customers with the powerful integrations they need to navigate digital transformation.

I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ... and work more on the technology than trying to make the login screen look really nice.

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

Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.

We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.

The cloud is this gigantic computing vehicle that delivers computing services to every single industry.

Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.

Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.

We like to get money. Whoever wants to work with us and make some money, let's do it.

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

The smartphone created a huge economy, the cloud created a huge economy.