When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

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

But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

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

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.