Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.

Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example -- it is the world's best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem. That means at times we'll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.

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?

If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.

Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.