I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.
There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going to go away. But what's the reason all of these professions come together? To help the business transform itself.
The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?
What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.
The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.
One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.
At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.
We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.
We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about really bringing advanced analytics and statistical machine learning into data-science departments everywhere.
Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.
I want people on the front line to be proud of what they're doing and give themselves permission to finish things in ways that they can be proud of.
Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world.
We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop.
Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.
There are nine million servers sold annually. Of those, just one million are sourced by the big guys. What we're trying to predict is: in the future, is that all going into the one million category? Or will there be some balance?
When we think about Windows, we want to think of it as a broad platform, from wearables to industrial IoT platforms to PCs and tablets.
The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.
If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?
