Bill Gates, presedintele Microsoft, tine un discurs la deschiderea oficiala a Centrului Global de Suport Tehnic in Bucuresti, joi, 1 februarie 2007. Bill Gates a primit ordinul national Steaua Romaniei in grad de comandor.
http://www.ziare.com/bill-gates/windows/bill-gates-a-ales-romania-61202
Bill Gates - "Am avut norocul sa obtin o avere si am vrut sa ajut si alti oameni"
"Premierul Calin Popescu Tariceanu - fiul vitreg al lui Dan Amadeo Lazarescu, cel care a "predat" la securitate zeci de fruntasi liberali, in anii '50. E drept, Dan Amadeo Lazarescu provenea dintr-o familie veche de liberali, dar tot el s-a dovedit ca a fost unul dintre informatorii platiti de securitate.
Chiar el a recunoscut ca a primit bani pentru informatiile pe care le dadea depre liberalii din partid, apoi s-a scuzat pentru tradarea din trecut argumentand ca din banii primiti de la securitate pentru notele informative a ajutat victimele pe care tot el le trimisese in puscarie." (A avut norocul sa obtina o avere si a vrut sa ajute si alti oameni n.a.)
http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-arhiva-1136220-conducerea-pnl-are-radacini-securitate.htm
"Un miliard de euro este dat de sectorul IT, din care probabil jumatate este indreptat catre export. Probabil, acesta este viitorul si mai putin segmentele clasice industriale", a spus Tariceanu
"Omul acesta minte atât de mult, încât nu trebuie luat în consideraţie" Presedintele Romaniei Traian Basescu
http://www.gandul.info/news/quot-omul-acesta-tariceanu-minte-atat-mult-incat-luat-considerat-279023#
http://www.gandul.info/news/basescu-tariceanu-mi-a-propus-un-parteneriat-cu-oligarhiile-277215
"Domnul prim ministru îmi propunea un parteneriat, din păcate, cu oligarhiile noastre, la doar câteva luni după ce şi eu şi el vorbisem de oligarhiile PSD. El îmi propunea să facem un parteneriat, pentru că, altfel spus, a venit şi timpul nostru", a dezvăluit ieri seară Băsescu.
Potrivit preşedintelui, biletul era anexat la un raport nesemnat, făcut de Petromidia. Băsescu a precizat că biletul făcea referire la raportul Petromidia, iar în final "eram întrebat dacă aş putea să vorbesc cu procurorii despre caz". Preşedintele a calificat această întrebare pusă de premier drept "o tentativă de a mi se sugera o intervenţie la Parchet. Un parteneriat pentru influenţarea justiţiei". Şeful statului a precizat că tentativele de influenţare a justiţiei fac parte din modul de gândire al premierului liberal Călin Popescu Tăriceanu. "L-a încercat şi cu alţii. Cu procurorul general din acea vreme, cu Parlamentul, pe 8 noiembrie când a avut un discurs legat de Petromidia şi cu Monica Macovei, când a invitat-o în birou la el pentru a se întâlni cu un om de afaceri (n.r. Dinu Patriciu), tot în cazul Petromidia".
http://www.microsoft.com/romania/comunicate/comunicat.aspx?c=289
Sustinerea competitivitătii nationale – o prioritate pentru Microsoft România
"Bani aruncati pe fereastra. Asa s-ar putea rezuma raportul Curtii de Conturi pe 2010 privitor la utilizarea fondurilor pentru infrastructura IT in administratia publica centrala. Raportul confirma zecile de anchete publicate de HotNews.ro in ultimii ani: ministerele si agentiile au facut risipa de bani publici si europeni pentru sisteme informatice inutile, nefunctionale sau care pur si simplu nu comunica intre ele. Cercetarea Curtii de Conturi consfinteste practic o noua moda pentru delapidarea bugetului de stat: infrastructura de IT.
Sute de milioane de euro cheltuiti pe IT fara nici o analiza
Avand in vedere ca partea cea mai importanta a finantarii investitiilor privind infrastructura IT a avut drept sursa fonduri comunitare pre si post aderare, care au facut obiectul diverselor actiuni de control si audit financiar si al performantei, efectuate de organismele si organele interne si externe abilitate. Nici in acest sens nu se poate vorbi de o evidenta clara, centralizata legata de constatarile si recomandarile rezultate in urma acestor actiuni, precum si a masurile intreprinse in legatura cu modul de aducere la indeplinire a acestora.
Nimeni nu stie cate licente (si soft furat n.a.) Microsoft a cumparat guvernul
La nivel guvernamental exista contracte, incheiate in 2004 si 2009, cu firma Microsoft privind achizitia de licente pentru software-ul de baza. In ceea ce priveste contractul din 2004 s-a constatat ca nu exista o evidenta clara cu privire la numarul şi administrarea acestora. Totodata, la nivelul unor ministere (MAE pentru aparatul extern şi MAI pentru ofiterii de legatura) s-au constatat situatii legate de achizitionarea unor echipamente pe plan extern, impreuna cu sisteme de operare si software de aplicatie avand licente, de cele mai multe ori preinstalate (OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer), fara a se verifica posibilitatea de a beneficia de pe urma contractelor amintite anterior şi cu riscul efectuarii unor plati neeconomicoase pentru aceste licente."
"Susţinerea competitivităţii naţionale– o prioritate pentru Microsoft România
La aniversarea a 15 ani de prezenţă în România, într-un moment în care competitivitatea naţională este principala prioritate a guvernului român, Ronald Binkofski, Director General Microsoft România a declarat că realizările Microsoft în România îi recomandă ca partener de încredere al mediului de afaceri şi al instituţiilor statului, poziţie din care sunt hotărâţi să sprijine în continuare Guvernul României „în definirea strategiei şi în implementarea agendei de competitivitate naţională.“
Aniversarea primilor 15 ani ai Microsoft în România a fost o ocazie foarte bună de reflecţie şi, în acelaşi timp, o oportunitate extraordinară de a explora potenţialul de colaborare cu clienţii şi partenerii. „Cu siguranţă suntem mândri de impactul pe care l-am creat în toţi aceşti 15 ani – în economie, în educaţie, în industria IT locală, prin soluţiile construite împreună cu partenerii noştri, prin parteneriatul strategic cu Guvernul României – şi mă bucur că i-am avut alături la momentul aniversării a 15 ani pe Directorii Generali pe care Microsoft România i-a avut în timp, „arhitecţii” companiei, Silviu Hotăran, Ovidiu Artopolescu şi Călin Tatomir. Pe viitor, inovaţia şi parteneriatele pe termen lung vor continua să constituie elementele de diferenţiere ale Microsoft în România.” – a declarat Ronald Binkofski, CEO Microsoft Romania.
http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf
Microsoft’s conduct over the last two decades has demonstrated Microsoft’s willingness and ability to engage in unlawful conduct to protect and extend its core monopolies. This conduct has caused real harm to consumers, who continue to pay high prices and use lower quality products than would have prevailed in a competitive market. By understanding Microsoft’s history of anticompetitive conduct, developers, consumer groups, and government authorities will be better equipped to recognize current and future Microsoft misconduct at an early stage and intervene to prevent Microsoft from using tactics other than competition on the merits.
http://www.peteava.ro/id-471725-02-download-the-true-story-of-the-internet-browser-wars:
7’55”: Of the course of 2 decades, Microsoft has established a near-monopoly over PC operating systems and used that monopoly to gain a vicelike grip over the entire computer industry.
8’13”: Bill Gates thought that the information highway should be a tollroad, on which Microsoft controlled all the toll gates.
9’49”: the company’s rise has left a trail of corpses in its wake – Lotus, Word Perfect, Borland, Novell, even IBM… all, brought to their knees.
37’45”: the Government of the United States… came to believe that Gates was not a hero, but a kind of high-tech terrorist.
http://knol.google.com/k/david-blomstrom/bill-gates/1i6e04re3w2kp/4#
Software Terrorist
Bill Gates is renowned for his harsh business tactics, but the true extent of his behind the scenes maneuvering is poorly known. The popular software programs Netscape and WordPerfect are two of Microsoft’s most famous victims, being largely replaced by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Word.
Tactics employed by Microsoft include what might be loosely termed monopolism, FUD, a so-called patent war and coercion, with many reports of corruption. The charges are generally leveled at Microsoft, rather than Bill Gates. However, many observers regard Microsoft as little more than an extension of Bill Gates’ personality. Gates certainly isn’t known to apologize for Microsoft’s excesses, let alone take the lead in cleaning up its act.
Microsoft has been widely accused of exploiting blackmail. For example, it has threatened to sue companies it claims are infringing on Microsoft patents without revealing what those patents are. Microsoft has even been accused of blackmailing schools.
http://tv.sys-con.com/node/44347 - Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems SUA:
“It really is mankind against Microsoft. And mankind needs a bit of a break right now. ... The market economy has got to win over the planned economy. And the Internet -- the open Internet -- has got to win. But [if the government doesn't enforce the law], well, bad things can happen to good people.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRU00562520070423 – Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Competition:
“In 50 years of EU antitrust policy we have never before encountered a company that has refused to comply with a Commission decision”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12422826/ns/business-world_business/ – Per Hellstrom, DG COMP:
“Microsoft's pleas must be ignored. This is the world according to Microsoft where it decides what is best for consumers.”
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/general/86580/microsoft-accuses-eu-of-interfering-with-market-forces – Per Hellstrom, DG COMP:
“Microsoft cannot be allowed to decide who can innovate and who cannot.”
“This case is of vital importance to innovation. Microsoft has a chilling effect.”
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2006/09/26/afx3044404.html
The US embassy in Brussels had contacted Kroes and asked her to be a bit 'nicer' to Microsoft before she had taken the decision to fine Microsoft in July, Kroes said in an interview.
Kroes defined the US government's move as 'an intervention which cannot stand... Like all companies great and small, Microsoft is not above the law.'
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/regulation/2005/02/15/microsoft-denies-blackmail-accusations-39187947/
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told the Danish Prime Minister he would move all 800 jobs at Navision, a Danish company acquired by Microsoft in 2002, to the States unless the EU adopted the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CIID)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/506998.stm.
"Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's core products. ... The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest." - Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in the Microsoft antitrust trial.
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/02/42071
In heart-to-heart chats with selected journalists brought into his chambers, Jackson served up quotable but unflattering comments about Microsoft, at one point likening company executives, including Bill Gates, to "drug traffickers" and "gangland killers."
http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/bill.gates.quotes.html
"There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go." - Bill Gates
http://techrights.org/2011/05/31/society-pays-collectively-for-msie/
"In one piece of email people were suggesting that Office had to work equally well with all browsers and that we shouldn't force Office users to use our browser. This is wrong and I wanted to correct this." - Bill Gates
http://techrights.org/2009/09/18/msft-swine-flu-heart-disease/
“The fact that there’s some e-mail here at MS that says, “let’s go up and beat this guy” ... there’s nothing wrong with that. That is capitalism at work for consumers.” - Bill Gates
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-patent-deals-are-business-as-usual-for-a-bully
"Intel has to accept that when we have a solution we like that is decent that that is the solution that wins."
"This anti-trust thing will blow over. We haven’t changed our business practices at all." - Bill Gates
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/microsoft/documents/gatespart2.htm
"I have no idea what you're talking about when you say 'ask.'" - Bill Gates, in his deposition for the Microsoft antitrust trial.
http://www.mhhe.com/business/management/updates/mcshane/newinfo/ch16.mhtml
"The Microsoft corporate culture can be broken down into four key parts: a tremendous work ethic; Bill Gates is always right; an us-versus-them mentality; and Bill Gates is always right." - Michael Gartenberg, Gartner Group Vice President.
"I take much of what [Bill Gates] says with a grain of salt because Bill would like to be ... the center of gravity for the whole world. He's totally dedicated to his work and will do virtually anything to kill the rest of us ... Bill Gates can be your partner and be your enemy at the same time." - AT&T Chairman Robert Allen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/24/google-china-sergey-brin-censorship
Brin saved his strongest criticisms for Microsoft, which he said had capitulated to the Chinese government and trampled over human rights merely in an attempt to score points over Google. "I'm very disappointed for them in particular," he said. "As I understand, they have effectively no market share – so they essentially spoke against freedom of speech and human rights simply in order to contradict Google."
http://www.hebdo.ch/microsoft_in_russia_60252_.html
Microsoft and the Russian police look like strange bedfellows. But are they? Microsoft authorized representatives have declared that they could not oppose the Russian police move while the Seattle based company had to play by the Russian law. Such an ambiguous declaration may be interpreted both ways as an active support to the Russian police or a passive collaboration. Clearly, human right activists in Russia should not count Microsoft as an ally to build a more open society.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raidside2.html?ref=abovethelaw
Even as Microsoft comes under criticism for taking part in software piracy cases against advocacy groups and opposition newspapers in Russia, it is also facing separate accusations that some private lawyers representing the company are involved in corruption schemes. An international anticorruption group, Transparency International, and a major Russian human rights groups, Memorial, contend that some private lawyers retained by Microsoft in Russia were helping corrupt law-enforcement officials to extort money from the targets of piracy inquiries.