Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects.

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts.

If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.