“That would be tantamount to undermining our franchise by making Windows some bit of software plumbing that no one sees.”
An unnamed Microsoft executive, not seeing the upside in plans by the government to allow PC manufacturers to slap their own front ends over Windows’ start screen, The New York Times, 18 May 1998
“The fact that Microsoft is negotiating with the Justice Department and apparently is prepared to make substantial concessions certainly undermines any argument that Justice has no case.”
Senator Orrin Hatch, (R.-Novell), getting dizzy from trying to spin the latest machinations in the Department of Justice’s antitrust investigation of Microsoft, News.com, 14 May 1998
“ZDTV is about changing the channel. It’s about a world where geek is chic.”
Ziff-Davis Chairman Eric Hippeau, speaking at tech TV channel ZDTV‘s launch party at San Francisco’s Concourse Exhibition Center, 13 May 1998
“Do you just want to talk about me? If all you want to talk about is me, I have better things to do.”
Apple CEO du jour Steve Jobs, responding to a reporter’s attempts to determine whether he was still going to be with the company when the product plans he’s rolling out come to fruition, San Jose Mercury News, 12 May 1998
“Last year the Internet became a real destination instead of a curiosity. It will soon be odd to say you don’t have a Web address. It will be like saying, ‘No, I haven’t installed any telephones.'”
Cathy Hotka, the National Retail Federation’s VP of information technology, on retailers’ warming embrace of the Internet, Miami Herald, 11 May 1998
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