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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.

Every Nba Arena Has Six Cameras In The Ceiling. The Question Is What Does The Software Do With Video Feeds? How To Surface That In A Set Of Analytics? There Are Some "playbooks," But In Most Sports These Days What You Really Want To Share Out With Coaches And Players Is A Set Of Video That Lets You Visualize What's Going On And What's The Best Way To Do Things.

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.

From A Client Perspective, I Really Think The Work Microsoft's Doing With Surface, With Hololens, With Xbox, That Stuff's Absolutely Essential To The Company's Future. Because Innovation In The Future Will Either Be From The Cloud Out To All Devices, Or From Devices As Supported By Software In The Cloud. I Think It's Important For Microsoft To Participate Both Ways.

Almost Three Years Ago, When I Retired, My Wife And I Were Talking About Our Philanthropic Work And How Does One Help Give Opportunity, Particularly To Kids Growing Up In Very Disadvantaged Situations.and My Initial Kind Of Sense Was, The Government Does That Primarily, And What We Should Mostly Do Is Pay Our Taxes. My Wife Said, No, I Don't Think That's Quite Right For Us. We Need To Do More. We Can Do Better.