The World Is Changing, But So Is

Whatever Device You Use, Windows Will Be There. Windows Will Be Everywhere On Every Device Without Compromise.

I Loved Every Minute Of My Time At Microsoft, But I Had Always Envisioned Having Another Phase Of Life Just Because I Thought That Would Be Interesting. It Had Never Been My Plan To Work Until I Literally Didn't Want To Do Anything And Then Hang It Up.

We'll Get A Chance To Go Through This [apple Versus Microsoft Debate] Again In Phones And Music Players. There's No Chance That The Iphone Is Going To Get Any Significant Market Share. No Chance. It's A $500 Subsidized Item. They May Make A Lot Of Money. But If You Actually Take A Look At The 1.3 Billion Phones That Get Sold, I'd Prefer To Have Our Software In 60% Or 70% Or 80% Of Them, Than I Would To Have 2% Or 3%, Which Is What Apple Might Get.

Not Only Because The Product Wasn't A Great Product, But Remember It Took Us Five Or Six Years To Ship It. Then We Had To Sort Of Fix It. That Was What I Might Call Windows 7.

We'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.