I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

In the first eight or so years at Microsoft, we were always chained to our terminals, and after I got sick the first time, I decided that I was going to be more adventurous and explore more of the world.

That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.