Software Compatibility Quotes

We feel confident that, were Apple and Adobe to work together as we are with a number of other partners, we could provide a terrific experience with Flash on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC space.

I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

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

I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

My impression is that a really, really high-order concern for the whole development community is interoperability and consistency.

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said; the whole Office thing was a huge pain. It was difficult to transfer files between operating systems, and generally speaking, if you wanted to do Office stuff, you needed a Windows machine.

Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic.

The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.

We're crafting versions of our TotalGuide Solution to work on both legacy devices as well as new and advanced boxes with varying levels of services based on the capabilities of the set-top box and network.

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.

If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.

I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise.

We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN.