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.
Steve BallmerIt actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.
Steve BallmerWhat we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .
Steve BallmerWe'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.
Steve BallmerI'm not an insider. I'm not on the board. I'm an outsider. That implies a certain kind of separation ... because the company can't, without an appropriate nondisclosure and trading rules, share confidential data with me that it would not share with any other shareholder. You could say that implies a certain kind of separation.
Steve Ballmer