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Throughout Our History, Microsoft Has Won By Making Big, Bold Bets. I Believe That Now Is Not The Time To Scale Back The Scope Of Our Ambition Or The Scale Of Our Investment. While Our Opportunities Are Greater Than Ever, We Also Face New Competitors, Faster-moving Markets And New Customer Demands.

Let's Face It, The Internet Was Designed For The Pc. The Internet Is Not Designed For The Iphone. That's Why They've Got 75,000 Applications - They're All Trying To Make The Internet Look Decent On The Iphone.

I'm Very, Very Bullish About Our Prospects, And As I Tell Our Board, As I Tell Our Employees, This Is The Time To Invest. There's So Much Opportunity. Let's Just Invest In That Opportunity, And Really Get After It.

The One Thing That I Think Separates Microsoft From A Lot Of Other People Is We Make Bold Bets. We're Persistent About Them, But We Make Them. A Lot Of People Won't Make A Bold Bet. A Bold Bet Doesn't Assure You Of Winning, But If You Make No Bold Bets You Can't Continue To Succeed. Our Industry Doesn't Allow You To Rest On Your Laurels Forever. I Mean, You Can Milk Any Great Idea. Any Idea That Turns Out To Be Truly Great Can Be Harvested For Tens Of Years. On The Other Hand, If You Want To Continue To Be Great, You've Got To Bet On New Things, Big, Bold Bets.

I Think Good Ideas Are Usually Better Done Quickly Than Slowly.