Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One.

This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?

Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.