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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.

[apple And Rim] Are Probably Restricted, In Some Sense, To A Certain Maximum. ... If You Want To Reach More People Than That, You Sort-of Have To Separate The Hardware And The Software Issue.

I Love The Fact That Satya Nadella's Checked The Checkbox For Cross-platform For A Number Of Our Services. I Still Think It's Very Important To Do The Right Kind Of Innovative Integration Across Windows And Our Hardware Platforms With Our Cloud Services. I Think The Company's Doing A Lot Of Good Stuff. Real Competition In Aws. Real Competition In Terms Of The Clients, Particularly From A Hardware Perspective, There's Also [competition] From Chrome. But All In All Pretty Good.

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.

And Then You Take A Look At Spaces, There Is This Great Innovation That Came Out Of Nowhere. We Have The Number One Blogging Site In The World Because Of The Innovation That's There.