I meet with Satya [Nadella] what probably amounts to four or five times a year - either to brainstorm something or just as a shareholder, we'll sit down and chat. That's always quite helpful for me and hopefully him in terms of thinking things through. I still have a number of friends and colleagues who occasionally want to brainstorm or chat about something, and that's always fun.
Steve BallmerI think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.
Steve BallmerI think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC?
Steve BallmerIn many ways I think the company's doing quite a good job. If you look at the transition to Office 365 we started when I was there, I'm excited about that and I think the company's doing a great job on that.
Steve BallmerI've found three or four things that are quite interesting to me that I'm focused on. That's been fun.The Clippers is obviously one of them.
Steve BallmerWhen you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the company is absolutely the No. 1 company serving enterprise backbone needs, which is fantastic. It's making the migration to cloud. We started a good thing with Azure, and the company has made well more than two years of progress in terms of being able to compete with the right cost profile, margin structure, and innovation versus Amazon.
Steve Ballmer