Louis V. Gerstner Jr. Quotes

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

AIR was born from thinking about how rich Internet applications would play out over time and what new pieces of technology would be in demand for these to go to their next generation.

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

Traditional PCs face competition from specialty products like Palm Pilots and from the servers that provide the nodes in computer networks. Microsoft's Windows CE hasn't done too well in the specialty-device market, and its Windows NT faces strong competition for server customers.

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

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

The first commercial routers came out about 1986, and services came in 1987.

If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.

Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid computing - will become very widespread. It's much cheaper than buying your own computing infrastructure, or maybe you don't have the power to do what you want on your own computer.

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.

5G cell networks create a whole new wave of distributed and edge computing.

Just as we have what used to be supercomputers in our pockets, our homes now require the telecommunications infrastructure of a small city.

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

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

We see opportunities in the networking and telecom space, including 5G, where we see accelerated investments.

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

Streaming is something that's going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything else.

We want to be able to service our customers more, like an Internet service. Our goal is to run one of the largest Internet services that enables people to use Windows on an everyday basis.

Broadband companies can have great success offering access to the unfettered Internet.

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.