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Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

What Microsoft is really good at is endlessly iterating and revving - incrementally improving things that already exist - and those things that already exist are generally acquired from the outside.

Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.

I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.