We see this a pretty good example of how .NET can provide value and a worthwhile service that customers will be willing to pay for,

Over time, the Excel client has become a very popular platform for developing applications, … With the Excel Services functionality in Office 12, companies will be able to run these same worksheets on the server.

This is an important release of the Windows server, but to Microsoft, it’s just one piece of the puzzle. We need hardware partners, ISVs, solution providers and system integrators that allow you to build systems...

What’s needed now are software technologies that interconnect computing systems, people and data to produce more rapid answers to the questions of science, and to help researchers use computation in the most effective manner,

It’s actually very crucial for the financial model to be based on end-users paying for the value they receive. It’s a reboot of the Internet business model.

We’ve eliminated a whole major attack vector with the worst kind of virus that exists.

DPM is all about enabling simpler storage management and reducing the amount of manual labor that customers must dedicate to backup and recovery,

The move away from tape as a primary means of restoring data, and using tape for archiving purposes, we think is going to become very broad in the industry,

We have seen customers reduce 48 hour backup windows down to 10 minutes with DPM, … With DPM, customers never have to do a full backup from the production server again; they only have to...

The monolithic nature of IIS which has been a total pain for people to build applications has been replaced, … molded on the kind of modularity Apache is known for.

Complexity in the IT environment is a fact of life. Our push toward dynamic systems will have broad impact and help customers to not only manage this more efficiently but also harness the power of...

This is for any workload which needs high-power computing. We are seeing a transition from government and academic use to a broader market – to bring it into the mainstream. The sweet spot is not...

[Acknowledging Monad as Windows’] next-generation scripting language, … Monad has a lot of great capabilities, the most important of which is that it’s built on the .NET Framework…It’s really the first mainstream command language that’s...

We’ve spent some time talking to Independent Software Vendors recently and the software community welcomes the arrival of a consistent environment to this area.

Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.

After months of testing, we’re ready to release R2. We’re bringing the code out of the development labs and giving it to you.

[Open source] applications are not integrated into companies’ Linux environments. They are built on one off environments so there’s no consistency… there are real support issues,

We see this as an important step in our efforts to work cooperatively with the [mobile-phone] industry.

Today’s announcement is yet another milestone in our collaborative efforts to deliver enterprise-class solutions that address our customers’ most critical business application needs. EMC and Microsoft are enhancing the delivery of joint solutions by our...

The fact that DPM works well with other Microsoft products that customers commonly use is a big differentiator,

Disk-based backup is still in the early stages of adoption in enterprises, and, even then, it is mostly limited to high-end enterprises,

Windows has gone from being a laggard in management to a leader. System Center is at the center, and Windows is key, but the learning we share together as people that drives us forward.

There’s no overlap between Visio and Microsoft products.

[The second was the first beta of Windows Compute Cluster Solution, a version of the OS aimed at scientific and financial customers who need compute-intensive systems consisting of large server clusters. This is part of...

Windows Server 2003 R2 builds on the proven reliability and security of Windows Server 2003 and introduces new functionality and benefits in key workloads and scenarios. R2 presents our customers with an array of new...

Vista will be, without a shadow of doubt, the most secure version of Windows we’ve ever released.

the right server for the right job.

We’re entering a market where it’s often the case where you are working with and competing with established companies. We can provide a much better cost equation in term of restoring data, but that does...

That really improves security and reduces management cost.