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A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts.
We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more.
What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.
There is something only a CEO uniquely can do, which is set that tone, which can then capture the soul of the collective.
I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.
If you talk about STEM education, the best way to introduce anyone to STEM or get their curiosity going on, it's Minecraft.
To me, Microsoft is about empowerment... we are the original democratizing force, putting a PC in every home and every desk.
It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.
The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.
We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.
Our goal with the cloud is to make sure that our cloud and our cloud applications are available on every device in the world.
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.
Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.
One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.
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.
The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?
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.
Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?
The mobile-first, cloud-first is a very rich canvas for innovation - it is not the device that is mobile, it is the person that is mobile.
The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.
I want the least number of decision makers. We want to empower people to get more things done and also give permission to question orthodoxy.
If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.
Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap.
I'm not claiming that we are the only guys who are going to succeed in the cloud. Others can succeed as well, just like in the previous generation.
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.
Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.
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.
The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.
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.
Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.
Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.
What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?' That's our real goal, and that's what we're going to stay focused on.
When we think about even the PC market and what is required in the student as well as in the consumer market, we want to be able to compete in the opening price point.
We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.
Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company.
To me, what Minecraft represents is more than a hit game franchise. It's this open-world platform. If you think about it, it's the one game parents want their kids to play.
If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can't really look at every failure as a failure, you've got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.
Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
I think reconceptualizing Microsoft as a devices and services company is absolutely what our vision is all about. Office 365 and Azure on the services side are representative of it.
Most people have a very strong sense of organizational ownership, but I think what people have to own is an innovation agenda, and everything is shared in terms of the implementation.
This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.
Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives.
We want to be able to service our customers more, like an Internet service. Our goal is to run one of the largest Internet services that enables people to use Windows on an everyday basis.
I cook a very exotic Hyderabadi rice dish called Hyderabadi biryani, which takes an entire day to cook, and the last time I cooked it was multiple years ago, but someday I'll cook it again.
In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is all going to get disrupted by the move to the cloud.
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.
We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop.