Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Patience is a key element of success.

Microsoft is always two years away from failure.

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.

To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

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.