Dwight Davis Quotations

Most people, including those strongly in the Active Directory camp, seem to think that it's a first-generation directory service and it's not quite there, it's not quite as competitive across the board as far as NDS is from Novell,

It's a bit ludicrous of anybody to predict the effect of such a break-up on the industry and say with any certainty whether it would be positive or negative,

Microsoft has a long history of publicizing its strategies by leaking memos judiciously, or not so judiciously.

Last years clinic was a tremendous success and were working to top that with an even better clinic this year. Ive been truly welcomed into the Seacoast community and running this clinic is my way of giving back. I have a full slate of youth and adult volunteers lined up and were looking forward to a fun day of basketball with our participants.

It comes out at sort of this strange time in the company's product evolution, the last gasp of the DOS line and Windows 98.

The whole purpose is to be sure that we're really testing the students knowledge and we want to make sure the computer doesn't serve as an interface.

The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.

What matters is, at the end of the day, the Web services you create should be able to interoperate with each other. The importance is the end result more than the process of how you achieved it.

Interestingly, it sort of raises some of the issues about Microsoft bundling features into the operating system, which of course has been core to the whole antitrust issue.

They are on the cusp of bigger demand for Windows 2000, and actually now applications are rolling out that exploit Active Directory. They've gone through the Windows 2000 certification process -- I think 150 applications have gone through that, and 70 to 80 are server apps. The picture certainly is a lot more promising than it was a year ago.