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

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

I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.

Make hiring a top priority.

I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.

As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.

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.