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

I think if you talk to the experts in any field where you have to take on a unknown challenge, where you're going to be working on it for a long time you'd find that to work themselves up to their best performance and really throw themselves into it, you know, spend all these hours in there and ah, give it their... give it their best that optimism plays a role.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.