33 Quotes by Jeff Raikes

The $500 million, to be spent over a year to buy ads and expand its sales force, is the largest business-oriented marketing campaign ever for the company.

We do think this is a different economy than we saw two to three years ago.

We are on schedule for the launch of Office 2007 by the end of this year for businesses and by early 2007 for consumers. We have scheduled the launch of consumer version in such a way that it is available after the holiday season.

We are making online services available for small businesses to create (big business-like computing) for them without the management requirements.

Within a month, Ray was putting his thoughts on software-as-services on paper.

The software business was dominated by hardware companies, and everybody thought they would just come in and wipe us out. People forget that Microsoft took a huge bet to think that an independent operating system and programming language would be successful.

Activities such as the BAM Minority Student Day are part of a larger Microsoft effort to provide urban high school students with exposure to the real-life experience of working in the high technology industry. Through the event, we also hope to inspire young minority students to become the information technology leaders of tomorrow.

This acquisition advances our (business intelligence) strategy and our ability to deliver performance management applications to customers.

A combination of Microsoft technologies will always have more impact.