Famous Quotes & Sayings

Three years ago, this room would have all been desktop PCs,

Nat Friedman

Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alternative for our desktop customers, who are mainly large government organizations displacing Windows desktops and big enterprise corporations replacing Solaris workstations.

This puts Yahoo Mail on par with desktop programs like Outlook and Lotus Notes, and offers a better experience for users.

Andy Grove

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

Nat Friedman

Right now Linux on the desktop is siphoning workstation users from Solaris and HP-UX.

Much of the industry's quarterly growth was at the low ends of the desktop and notebook categories, which offer little if any profitability. Dell met its operating targets by pursuing profitable growth.

Linus Torvalds

I don't expect the desktop to come quickly. It will take time,

We're taking desktop applications to a whole new level.

People are more likely to use an application if they're comfortable with it, if it's familiar to them. Since they use Office, tying in CRM to the desktop level just makes sense.

We'll be able to provide (small- and medium-size businesses) with powerful, yet easy-to-use telephony and desktop capabilities,

Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job. The application just tells the operating system to go do something, so anything you do to make the operating system faster makes the whole process faster.

Miguel de Icaza

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

Microsoft is going to feel the pain: over 80 percent of desktop Windows are through sales of new PCs.

Windows CE is interoperable with the desktop operating system. I think Microsoft already dominates this space. It's going to be very tough.

Windows CE is interoperable with the desktop operating system, ... I think Microsoft already dominates this space. It's going to be very tough.

Nat Friedman

Those little things give a desktop a sense of physicality.

The issue with Linux has always been the desktop, ... a non-starter on the desktop for all kinds of reasons.

David Allen

That's a growth opportunity for desktop CPUs as they evolve into a new form factor and usage model.

Rob Enderle

There isn't a player on the desktop that's at greater risk of losing share to IBM here than Microsoft,

General Interface provides a framework for deploying applications that look, feel and perform like desktop software but run purely in a browser.

Michael Arrington

Everything's mobile these days. Let's go mo-bile! But really, that's just an IQ test. When you see bold new startups with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don't get it, and you move on.

Ross Anderson

Something that goes on the desktop has to be a simpler and more structured tool with fewer configuration options. It has to be running in the background.

No, ... We looked at five factors. The most important was securing relative parity with MSN on desktop distribution.

Adhir Kalyan

I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.

That's where innovation is. So desktop is not a market that we want to serve.

Dan Campbell

With Live Soccer Odds Desktop Alert, punters can now react to live soccer odds as they are published and monitor their favorite team using the integrated alerting tools.

This is a very powerful tool, potentially with a bidirectional metaphor. It's indexing all this stuff on your desktop and doing something on the Web. Who's to say that's not a potential breach?

In some sense, the desktop market is being hit with a double whammy.

Paul Otellini

In recent years, the notebook has seen great evolution, but the good old desktop has not. But the desktop still has an enormous installed base; desktops are more than 70 percent of all PCs sold, about 85 million units per year.

If desktop prices were weak, it must have been that they didn't see enough trading up during the end of the holiday season.

They were seeing some weakness in desktop and strength in notebooks, but not enough to offset the weakness in desktop,

Miguel de Icaza

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

You will see 32-bit and 64-bit products in parallel for five to 10 years. If you look at the desktop market, by the time you get 64-bit applications on the desktop for the sort of things we do in our home, it will be some time before we get into that space.