The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

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

The early personal computers were not very powerful so the idea of feeding their program into a small amount of memory requires immense skill.

Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam.

Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.