I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons o…

- Jim Allchin

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 e…

- Jim Allchin

Apple really has no presence in business, and we think Vista's going to have a huge presence in business. We think we're going to help the corporate …

- Jim Allchin

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.

- Jim Allchin

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 before…

- Jim Allchin

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

- Jim Allchin

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.

- Jim Allchin

I continue to see good growth in the mobile space; I expect to see PCs being the core driver in the home. And I mean that for entertainment along wit…

- Jim Allchin

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

- Jim Allchin