Quotes

• MICROSOFT = Most Intelligent Customer Realize Our Software is Only for Fools and Teenagers.

• I request you to go thro' the following site:
  http://www.overlandstorage.com
  and get the feel of the products. I am working in this firm as Key Account Manager for Chennai.
  
  "We have crossed more than 250 installations in India. Overland storage products are heavily used in Microsoft (we have installed more than 40 in Microsoft, Hyderabad itself) And to share a wonderful piece of information is that all the applicances of ours are powered by Linux!!!
  
  We have recently been awarded two awards by the Storage World Conference also both for our Tape Drives (called NEO Series) and Diskbased Drives (Called REO Series) pipping out big names like IBM,HP,NetApp, EMC etc., More can be from http://www.storageworldconference.com.
  
  We are the authorised OEMs to IBM and HP for their Tape requirements.Computer Associates are our global partners in developing tools based on their software and also our customers worldwide.
  
  Please let me know if you require any more info regarding Backup,Recovery, Disaster Recovery, SAN, iSCSI based appliances, FC based and SATA based Storage Applicances etc., I will be glad to you assist you.
  
  Regards"
          -- Ravi Kumar Tenneti

• "I worked for a Microsoft Partner. My company in the 1990's sold more software than Microsoft. Productivity and Children's software. In 1996 we were preparing to release new products that were to be run on the new OS Windows 95. Some of our products we decided to get Microsoft logo tested and some we decided to sell without the logo. 
  
  We tested both products extensively and the logo products were sent to Microsoft and certified. The non logo software was not certified. Twelve days before the final release after extensive testing on the Windows 95 final release candidate we sent both the logo tested products and the non logo tested products in for mastering andproduction. Two days after the release of both Windows 95 and our products we found out that Microsoft didn't burn the final release, they came up with a newer final release, which we couldn't test against and burned from it.
  
  The final final release created bugs in about 25% of our non logo products. Instantly creating 50,000 bad CD's.
  
  This was the Microsoft that I knew in 1996.
  
  I started using Linux a few weeks later and that same year I told my division bosses that Linux was going to smoke Microsoft.
  
  Open source works. "        
          -- Carlton Lee
  

• "Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
  Windows-2000/Professional isn't. "
          -- "Dick Johnson"

• "Computers are like air conditioners - They can't do their job properly if you open windows"
          -- "heema"

• Here's the definition of Windows 95:
      n. 32-bit extensions of a 16-bit shell for a 8-bit OS, made for a 4-bitcomputer by a 2-bit company who can't stand 1-bit of competition.

• Theory is when everything is known and nothing works. Practice is when everything works and nobody knows why. At micro$oft, theory and practice are united: nothing works and nobody knows why.
         -- Unknown

• I don't need to Buy Windows 95 to see disk space disappear or to watch my programs run slower...
  I can hit my computer with a hammer for free and watch it HAPPEN !!
          -- Unknown

• "If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed ... ... Oh, wait a minute, he already does."
          -- Chris Ward

• "I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter."
          -- Nicholas Petreley, InfoWorld editor

• "It said Windows 98 or better; so I used Linux"
          -- "RallyMonkey"

• "Mamma always said, 'Windows is like a box of viruses. You never know what your gonna get'."
          -- "Scarecrow Man"

• Microsoft puts the "backward" in "backward compatible".
          -- Mike Bartman (paraphrased)

• "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day that they start making vacuum cleaners"
          -- "stgreek"

• "To err is human,
  to foul things up requires a computer,
  to bring Western civilisation to a standstill requires Bill Gates."
          -- Nick Bishop

• What's the difference between Microsoft and Jurassic Park?
  One is a fantasy theme park populated with dinosaurs, and the other is a movie.
          -- Unknown  

• When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free"
          -- Linus Torvalds

• Micro$oft should make cars, GM should make software
  
  At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated:
  
  "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."
  
  In response to Bill's comments/General Motors issued a press release stating the following:
  
  "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would be driving cars with the following characteristics:
  
  1.   For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice
  
  2.   Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.
  
  3.   Occasionally, your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would accept this, restart, and drive on.
  
  4.   Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart; in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
  
  5.   Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought 'Car95' or 'CarNT.'  Then you would have to buy more seats.
  
  6.   Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was more reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
  
  7.   The oil, water, temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single 'general car fault' warning light.
  
  8.   New seats would force everyone to have the same butt size.
  
  9.   The airbag system would say 'Are you sure?'  before going off.
  
  10.  Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted thedoor handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
  
  11.  GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe setof Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them.  Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 percentor more.
  
  12.  Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
  
  13.  You'd press the 'Start' button to shut off the engine.