Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.

It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.

Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.

Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business