Adam Sohn Quotations

Would we prefer that our people put patches in on the same day they come out? Sure. It's hard to give you an absolute certainty that the patch had been applied across the board. Given today's incident, our security teams are going back to check out the systems.

If you ask our customers, they prefer we take a couple of extra days before we post a patch rather than have the public know about the problem.

Everyone likes to write that the game is over -- but it is still early. The story is that people are finally lining up in the starting blocks.

The government is clearly as adept a PR machine as there ever was one.

We are very focused on securing and maintaining the servers on our network. From a security standpoint, there should be no difference between servers.

This company doesn't put up with this kind of stuff -- intentionally or otherwise. There is nothing sinister or intentional going on here.

I'm not going to react to the judge. That would be counterproductive in general.

They had nothing to do with each other. It's like comparing apples and oranges.

Microsoft typically does not comment on specific government inquiries. That said, as you may have heard from the DOJ, they did contact us in this case. We take the privacy of our customers very seriously. We did comply with their request for data in this case in a way that ensured we also protected the privacy of our customers.

Everyone wants to single out MSN versus somebody.