What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .

One might ask the question: Is the mortgage interest deduction doing a better job, a worse job, if it's supposed to promote homeownership and savings? Because home ownership is the biggest form of savings in this country. Different people will look at that data and draw different conclusions, but that's just an example of the kind of thing you can pull out of USAFacts and develop a point of view about.

So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

I think good ideas are usually better done quickly than slowly.

I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?

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