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

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

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?