62 Quotes by Jim Allchin

The gaming experience on Windows Vista is going to go beyond any of the gaming consoles and anything that's been done before.

The first step is protection from doing things inadvertently or warning you about the level of impact it could have. Then, if you let something in, Defender is there to (warn you) and you can undo it. If the thing gets in and has really done some awful things, using the equivalent of System Restore in Windows XP you can back up time and undo it.

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.

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

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 IT stack save money.

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.

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.