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I Think These Things Social Networks Are Going To Have Some Legs,and Yet There's A Faddishness, A Faddish Nature About Anything That Basically Appeals To Younger People.

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.

In 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.

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.

When You're Running A Company, You Have Employees - Lots Of Them - That Can Interrupt Your Schedule. You Have Customers That Can Interrupt Your Schedule. You Have A Certain Obligation To Wave The Flag Because People Expect To Get Out And Wave The Flag. The Number Of Ways That Others Can Command Your Time Is High. At This Stage, I Get To Pick And Choose A Little More. Not That There Aren't Some Things That Have To Be Done, But I Get A Little More Control Over My Time.