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

When you’re the janitor, reasons matter. Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

Steve Jobs quoted in a Adam Lashinsky’s latest feature story on Fortune magazine.

One thing we see generally is people have the same circle of people they’re willing to share their location with all the time, It’s less about the breadth of sharing and more about the level of engagement.

Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Location in an interview with Forbes

No one would willingly give the IRS more than they owe, or submit to taxes they weren’t required to pay. So why is it that people and businesses allow themselves to be unfairly “taxed” by Google?

Tom Rizzo, Senior Director of Microsoft Online Services in a blog post talking about hidden costs of Google Apps

In China, you are seeing the Android operating system, Android phone proliferating across the board.

Daniel Alegre, President of Asia Pacific at Google, in a briefing in Hong Kong

Steve Ballmer at BlackBerry World? It’s like being transported to an alternate universe. It shows when it comes to mobile search, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Michael Gartenberg, a Gartner analyst attending the BlackBerry conference on Microsoft RIM alliance over Bing Search.

I cannot stress enough how important Google's wifi location database is to our Android and mobile product strategy, We absolutely do care about this (decision by Motorola) because we need wifi data collection in order to maintain and improve our wifi loca

Google Location Service Product Manager Steve Lee responding to Larry Page in an leaked email produced by Mercury News

You have to live underneath a rock not to know that the iPad has taken share from the netbook, It’s a problem on the consumer side, and that’s a market where Microsoft continues to give up territory to Apple.

Pat Becker Jr., Principal of Portland, Oregon-based Becker Capital Management Inc., which holds Microsoft shares as part of its $2.5 billion in assets.