Alan Davis Quotations

There are certainly some solid growth prospects for Microsoft but it's not going to be the glory days again.

People were hoping for just a little bit better on the guidance. Guidance was OK but not great.

I have a real problem making checks on a place not legally licensed. I recommend it be shut down immediately.

Looking at server sales and continued strength in particular on the PC side, it should be a pretty solid quarter with that kind of backdrop.

It does signal a bit of a switch from a technical to more of a sales focus at the top.

Microsoft might participate in a rally to a greater degree than it has in the past year and a half, ... But it's not going to be a high-flier.

The stock has probably bottomed out. But with no dramatic increases in earnings any time soon, the stock will probably increase in line with earnings growth.

The skeptic would say this is not by choice.

Acquisition has certainly been an ongoing strategy, and certainly this is an opportunity to accelerate that.

This could be a little bit of conservativeness on Microsoft's part. Wall Street was already above their guidance, ... But investors would have liked to see more on the bottom line. Operating costs were a little bit higher than expected. That was the negative.

It's more difficult for Microsoft to grow. That's running against them,

Forewarned is forearmed' is probably the most effective virus combat technique, and in this case the lead time was so short that many, many companies have been caught unarmed,

For anyone who aspires to cultural diversity, the richness of South Asian music is pretty hard to beat.

For a company of Microsoft's size, this is good revenue growth. It shows that there is life here.

It's going to help them integrate more of search into the core operating system, which will help them compete by giving them an advantage.

Its for anyone with five or six sites in the London area that wants to disseminate information between them. We believe this is the first launch of a city-wide VPLS uncontended network.

It's our time to come in and play and show what we can do. We have to show the defensive ends haven't lost anything.

Its dedicated Ethernet. The POPs are held together by native, Layer 2, dedicated Ethernet.

I'm feeling pretty confident right now about the system. I'm getting more comfortable each week and just have to continue to work hard.