55 Quotes by Michael Gartenberg

The strategy here of under-promising and being able to over-deliver is the right approach. Typically one of the thing that curses startups is when you peak too early, when expectations are set way too high, they discover there are issues.

The technology to build these is fairly simple. It doesn't require advanced development techniques.

The survey reinforces Microsoft's message to enterprises that Windows is a safe bet.

Sony was not early in the plasma TV market even though consumers showed interest in it. Other Asian competitors were able to get products out faster and capture the minds of consumers.

Often consumers don't have an easy way to get the pictures off the camera. So they use them as wallpaper and screensavers instead of printing them. It shows how consumers are changing the way they are interacting with digital technology. Consumers are realizing that there's many ways they can interact with their pictures other than just printing them out and pasting them into an album.

The browser has taken on the status of mission critical. You're not going to see many enterprises adopt this (Mozilla) when there is such a sense of gravity around IE,

You need to test your equipment and make sure you're ready to jump. You jump only after you've made an informed decision.

This is a question of extending their reach.

This is not such a watershed moment for Microsoft, but another step in a process that's been years in the making to get the right devices and the right partnerships out there and demonstrate to the market that this is a viable platform for these types of large scale projects. Typically what you do see in situations like this is that success breeds success.