His [Steve Ballmer's] continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock.

Influential hedge fund manager David Einhorn

Mac shipments in the business market grew at a torrid 66.0% pace, an order of magnitude higher than the 4.5% shipment growth rate of the business market.

Charlie Wolf, Analyst with Needham & Company on Apple making huge inroads in enterprise

I was a strong proponent at the board level for the deal being done.

Bill Gates, on how he advocated the company's takeover of Skype, and urged other board members to support the move.

It's a point of sales problem. It's an expertise at retail problem. It's a marketing problem to consumers. It is a price point problem.

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang on Why Android tablets aren't selling

Ballmer and his company are at a tipping-point and he knows it. Microsoft is still big and powerful and rich, but no longer is it the biggest, most powerful, and richest.

Famous Blogger Robert X. Cringely on Why Microsoft bought Skype

Typically, in my opinion, community processes don’t work, because you need to know when you’re done. If it’s a community process, someone could take an early version before (it is) locked down, and those devices would be incompatible.

Google's Andy rubin highlighting the difference between something being released as open source code and a community project in context of Android.

Will we sell a few more Kinects when we get these things hooked up? Yeah, I think so. Skype can help where we are in the enterprise by getting those customer bases to work well together.

Steve Ballmer on Skype acquisition to Reuters