Gregg H.

"Then there’s the enterprise – different set of needs – they’re not paying for software, they’re paying for support – a contract. They’re not paying for software, they’re paying for security. In a sense, Microsoft’s in the risk-reduction business now." -- When you're the one supplying the risk, say in the form of, "wouldn't it be a shame if you got sued because you were violating our patents with some other OS", and then you provide the "risk reduction" as Mr. Anderson calls it... Where I come from that's called "running a protection racket". - Gregg H.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis," Ballmer told a retreat of House Democrats in Williamsburg, Va. "There is a lot of history around that, and frankly if you stop and think about it, 1837, '73, '29, 2008, it's almost exactly a whole lifetime between each of the major economic difficulties that we face." Ballmer said that economic growth in the last 25 years was fueled by innovation, globalization, and debt--and that the current levels of debt were unsustainable. - Gregg H.

"I think we have three, four, five years here that will be very tough," said Gates. In response to questions on the origin of our troubles, Gates was blunt: "There's no doubt the American consumer was overspending. But there's no government magic bullet to fix things. ... If you actually went back to overspending, you'd just go back to the same problems." - Gregg H.