Instead of there being one big cloud or datacenter being hosted by Microsoft, there will be multiple smaller clouds hosting these services such as ISPs and other providers right out of the box,

Ten years ago it was a venture to really think deeply about how you merge traditional media with new media. It made sense at the time.

Like when you go into business in any country, you do it in full compliance with the laws and regulations of that country. It’s not something we think twice about.

Once you sell it, it’s sold. Anything that would let the previous owner come back and make demands is not something we’d agree to.

But, to date, the Liberty Alliance has delivered no technology at all, … It’s just delivered a bunch of statements by Microsoft competitors that somehow some unannounced technology is better than proprietary technology, when in...

He’s been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.

It’s possible for folks to ask customers to give them more data, but we will make it very clear what information goes to Passport and what goes to the partners,

It’s been floating around in one form or another. It is sort of an unfortunate consequence of the freedom the Internet offers.

For us it’s not a big change — there’s always been competition out there. This is further evidence to bolster what we’ve said all along — that there are tons of companies trying to provide...

To some degree I think David felt comfortable enough with the state of things at MSN that now’s the time.

Everyone wants to single out MSN versus somebody,

doesn’t cause problems with the Windows experience.

Would we prefer that our people put patches in on the same day they come out? Sure. It’s hard to give you an absolute certainty that the patch had been applied across the board. Given...

These are tools that help people better visualize and connect to the information they care about.

We’re disappointed. As soon as they went public with the tool that exploits the issue, they put millions of IIS servers in jeopardy. We would rather to have had this fixed before they disclosed this...

We simply thought that the technology was not ready and was in need of additional work toward better and more complete integration with the document object model and with HTML.

If someone comes up with a super-hot idea, we’ll have a bunch of researchers and developers who can take those ideas, get them prototyped and see if there’s a real, healthy business there.

For a lot of users, it will feel like infinite scroll.

This action will not have any impact on the release date of Windows 98. We expect it to ship as scheduled on June 25.

This company doesn’t put up with this kind of stuff — intentionally or otherwise. There is nothing sinister or intentional going on here.

We investigated this report,

In the future there will be one search experience ? when we come out of beta (with Windows Live Search), which won’t be years [from now].

We think we need to evolve the platform and development story to keep pace with developers who want to build these experiences that reach across the Internet. The more applications, the more value to the...

What we want to do [with .NET My Services] is provide a general-purpose platform that allows users and developers to easily build and deploy new Web services.

We investigated this report. He was able to exploit a known security flaw that we were able to patch. The patch had not yet applied to the server.

What we want to do is attract people into the (MSN) network,

If you ask our customers, they prefer we take a couple of extra days before we post a patch rather than have the public know about the problem.

Microsoft typically does not comment on specific government inquiries. That said, as you may have heard from the DOJ, they did contact us in this case. We take the privacy of our customers very seriously....

I’m not going to react to the judge. That would be counterproductive in general.

We are very focused on securing and maintaining the servers on our network. From a security standpoint, there should be no difference between servers.

If someone comes up with a super-hot idea … we’ll have a bunch of researchers who can take those ideas, get them prototyped and see if there’s a real, healthy business there.

The government is clearly as adept a PR machine as there ever was one.

This is an effort to formalize an organization that can respond to rapid prototyping and applied research where you can connect deep computer science to the products on Internet time. Many of these projects will...

We’re saying partners will have the flexibility to decide what they ask [users] for.

Rob Glaser went before the U.S. Senate and said, ‘Windows is breaking my software, let me tell you how.’ In fact, it does not.

Everyone likes to write that the game is over — but it is still early. The story is that people are finally lining up in the starting blocks.

We did comply with their request for data in regards to helping protect children in a way that ensured we also protected the privacy of our customers. We were able to share aggregated query data,...

The goal is to work towards rapidly prototyping new products and services.

We tried to resolve this out of court, … They made an offer to sell us these things for tens of thousands of dollars. We said ‘no way.’

It makes sense for both parties to focus on what’s core.

The partnership allows us to focus on growing the online venture.

They had nothing to do with each other. It’s like comparing apples and oranges.