Bob Muglia Quotes (17 Quotes)

Windows has gone from being a laggard in management to a leader. System Center is at the center, and Windows is key, but the learning we share together as people that drives us forward.

We see this a pretty good example of how .NET can provide value and a worthwhile service that customers will be willing to pay for,

Microsoft is pleased that customers using SMS 2003, including our recently announced SMS 2003 R2, can take advantage of the new capabilities delivered through Intel AMT and Intel's Professional Business Platform via the Intel developed add-on software for SMS. This enables customers to better manage their environments and computing infrastructures by reducing many challenges they face today. Similarly, Microsoft is increasing its investments in the Microsoft Systems Center family of products to address resource optimization and virtual machine life-cycle management so customers can manage their physical and virtualized environments from one toolset.

DPM is all about enabling simpler storage management and reducing the amount of manual labor that customers must dedicate to backup and recovery,

Acknowledging Monad as Windows' next-generation scripting language, ... Monad has a lot of great capabilities, the most important of which is that it's built on the .NET Framework...It's really the first mainstream command language that's focused on allowing objects, with a full set of services that an object possesses events and methods, and pass those things between different commands.

Over time, the Excel client has become a very popular platform for developing applications, ... With the Excel Services functionality in Office 12, companies will be able to run these same worksheets on the server.

That really improves security and reduces management cost.

We see this as an important step in our efforts to work cooperatively with the mobile-phone industry.

We've spent some time talking to Independent Software Vendors recently and the software community welcomes the arrival of a consistent environment to this area.

The monolithic nature of IIS which has been a total pain for people to build applications has been replaced, ... molded on the kind of modularity Apache is known for.

This is for any workload which needs high-power computing. We are seeing a transition from government and academic use to a broader market - to bring it into the mainstream. The sweet spot is not for really big machines but in the range of 4 to 64 way machines.

The second was the first beta of Windows Compute Cluster Solution, a version of the OS aimed at scientific and financial customers who need compute-intensive systems consisting of large server clusters. This is part of Microsoft's push into high-performance computing environments, areas where it's not been particularly successful, and where Unix rules. The problem is a compute cluster solution has not been delivered by Microsoft in the past, ... Our goal is to build a complete platform here. Compute Cluster allows people to build applications that scale across a large number of machines.

The move away from tape as a primary means of restoring data, and using tape for archiving purposes, we think is going to become very broad in the industry.

We're entering a market where it's often the case where you are working with and competing with established companies. We can provide a much better cost equation in term of restoring data, but that does not obsolete products for data archiving purposes.

Today's announcement is yet another milestone in our collaborative efforts to deliver enterprise-class solutions that address our customers' most critical business application needs. EMC and Microsoft are enhancing the delivery of joint solutions by our skilled service professionals, and this commitment will enable customers to optimize their infrastructure with high-performance servers and applications.

Vista will be, without a shadow of doubt, the most secure version of Windows we've ever released.

It's actually very crucial for the financial model to be based on end-users paying for the value they receive. It's a reboot of the Internet business model.