Jeff Raikes Quotes (16 Quotes)

What Microsoft has done over the years is bring technology to mass markets, and we think the time has come to do that with business intelligence software. And we're building it into the Office tools that are familiar to everyone.

Until now, business intelligence software has been too complex, costly and disconnected from the software tools people use to do their everyday jobs.

We do think this is a different economy than we saw two to three years ago.

IBM legitimized the notion of the PC -- that it would not be just a hobbyist computer.

Over the past year, we've reaffirmed our commitment to delivering breakthrough innovation by aligning our development efforts with customers' needs and their current technology environment. Convergence 2006 is certain to provide tremendous opportunity for Microsoft Business Solutions' customers and partners to share ideas and knowledge. Together, we are building a new approach to supporting information workers in the 21st century with integrated, adaptable business management solutions to enable better decision-making, improve productivity and help increase the efficiency of business processes.

What we want to do is to make sure that we're working with you and our partners, the community.

One way to increase the impact that people can have in an organization is to give them access to the information they need. Until now, BI software has been too complex, costly, and disconnected from the software tools people use every day to do their jobs.

The Internet is crucial to running a successful business today, and companies that don't have at least an online presence risk missing out. With Microsoft Office Live, our goal is to make it easy and affordable for small businesses to have a more customizable Internet-based solution.

This acquisition advances our (business intelligence) strategy and our ability to deliver performance management applications to customers.

Activities such as the BAM Minority Student Day are part of a larger Microsoft effort to provide urban high school students with exposure to the real-life experience of working in the high technology industry. Through the event, we also hope to inspire young minority students to become the information technology leaders of tomorrow.

We are making online services available for small businesses to create (big business-like computing) for them without the management requirements.

The 500 million, to be spent over a year to buy ads and expand its sales force, is the largest business-oriented marketing campaign ever for the company.

The software business was dominated by hardware companies, and everybody thought they would just come in and wipe us out. People forget that Microsoft took a huge bet to think that an independent operating system and programming language would be successful.

Partners play a critical role in delivering solutions and applications to customers with the Microsoft Office System. The value of Solutions Competencies is that they enable Microsoft to deliver resources and training to partners that are meeting their customer needs. And for partners, the opportunity to highlight their expertise to customers is tremendous in the growing IW solution market.

That combination of focus is very, very important, it's very powerful, and I think it really uniquely positions Microsoft to be the best company to be able to meet your needs.

There are nearly 300 million PC users out there now, and so that gives us a very, very broad market. So we can put far more, you know, ten times more into RD of the operating system, yet make it available for one-tenth or less the price.