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Giving Money Effectively Is Almost As Hard As Earning It In The First Place.

Nobody Has A Guaranteed Position In Computer Technologies Business. We've Done Some Good Work, But All Of These Products Become Obsolete So Fast And The Structure Of The Business As It Broadens Out Is Going To Be So Different.

No One Person Controls Microsoft. The Board And The Shareholders Decide Whether They Want To Have Me As Ceo.

I Set A Rule That People Weren't Allowed To Send Good News Unless They Sent Around An Equal Amount Of Bad News. We Had To Get A Balanced Picture. In Fact, I Kind Of Favored Just Hearing About The Accounts We Were Losing Because ... Bad News Is Generally More Actionable Than Good News.

People Don't Want Lots And Lots Of Single Purpose Devices. They Do Not Want To Have To Learn How To Set Up Something For Photos, Another Thing For Music, Another Thing For Video.