Tech Rivalry Quotes

I'm quite certain the Windows 8 team is preparing to market IE 10 - and by extension, Windows 8 - as the safe, privacy-enhancing choice, capitalizing on Google's many government woes and consumers' overall unease with the search giant's power.

Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.

When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that.

Android is ahead of the iPhone now.

I never sensed really bad blood between Microsoft and Apple. A lot of Macintosh users feel badly about PCs and do have some bad feelings. I call them Macintosh bigots a little. They say, oh, no, only the Macintosh is the good one, and I don't like to be that way.

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

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.

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

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called 'contextual computing.' We have become data-spewing factories, and the only way to make sense of it all is through context.

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.

Yahoo is still in many ways the definitive brand of the consumer Internet, but I don't think they can or should compete with Google any longer. That game is over.

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

Market in India is big enough for several brands. For us, it's about innovation, making best product, and making the ecosystem better and better. If we do that well, then more people will switch from Android to iOS.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

Amazon doesn't want to give Apple a cut of its media sales, so Apple won't let Amazon sell products in its apps.

By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.

In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

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 went to computer class with my Dell and I was bullied by a guy with a Mac.

Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

We'll get a chance to go through this [Apple versus Microsoft debate] again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.

I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.

Honestly, I was pretty sure AltaVista was going to destroy Google