Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

I love the fact that Satya Nadella's checked the checkbox for cross-platform for a number of our services. I still think it's very important to do the right kind of innovative integration across Windows and our hardware platforms with our cloud services. I think the company's doing a lot of good stuff. Real competition in AWS. Real competition in terms of the clients, particularly from a hardware perspective, there's also [competition] from Chrome. But all in all pretty good.

This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.

You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone. I think you do to use an Android phone.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.