"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs."
-- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Programmer's Guide" (forward by Bill Gates)
Developer: Does the announcement [of the OS/2 joint development agreement between IBM and Microsoft] mean that Microsoft is curtailing any plans for future development of Windows?
Gates: Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2.
-- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Notebook", Microsoft Press, (c) 1990
--an excerpt from an interview with Bill Gates and Jim Cannavino, p. 614
"If you don't know what you need Windows NT for, you don't need it."
-- Bill Gates
"New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager, preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
-- Microsoft Advertisement On the Box of Windows 2.11 for 286
"The next generation of interesting software will be made on a Macintosh, not an IBM PC."
-- Bill Gates (unconfirmed quote)
"My daughter and I were walking down the street and I said, 'Let's go to the record store,' and she said, 'What's a record?'"
-- Bill Gates, Detroit Economic Club Luncheon
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