Jim Allchin Quotations

Today, the PC is often still considered just a tool, but together we need to make it a lot more than that. We need to make it a path to experiences.

We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.

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

We can build a better product than Linux,

I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.

Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.

If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

Quality was the No. 1 thing that we focused on here, and we feel good enough to lock that date in. It would have been nice to make the back-to-school time frame for pre-loading, but quality came first.