Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those.

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very carefully to make sure that it's extended, and there are very interesting things that are being done with that.