I'm so glad to have Xbox as a franchise, especially at a time when gaming is becoming even more important - as a digital life category and in the mobile world.
I want people on the front line to be proud of what they're doing and give themselves permission to finish things in ways that they can be proud of.
I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.
One of the things I think a lot about, I am perhaps a great example of the enlightened immigration policy of this country where I was able to come here to study and then stay back and work and build a life.
We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.
Wherever we are seeing something getting used, that to us is an early indicator that there might be something that people want. And then let's figure out how to make that great. And then let's go figure out monetization.
Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.
I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset.
Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.
If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.
LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
We all know the mortality of companies is less than human beings.
I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.
When I started at Microsoft, I was lucky enough to be part of the rise of the client-server paradigm.
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.
The unique value that Microsoft can add is around productivity and platforms. Productivity is broadly something we can uniquely do.
When we think about Windows, we want to think of it as a broad platform, from wearables to industrial IoT platforms to PCs and tablets.
At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.
