I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

Analytics only goes so far. Basketball, more than baseball, for example, is really a team sport.

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

I'm a shareholder in Microsoft Corp. of some size, and while I don't work for the place anymore, I think a lot about that investment, how - as an outsider - might I add value or not add value? Do I believe that things are headed in a good direction? So I wouldn't say I spend the majority of my time on that, but I spend some time on that as well.

We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.

The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It's filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers.

Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.