We haven’t yet cracked how to integrate what’s on the desktop with what’s in the various content management systems.

You just want to think about what you want to accomplish,

Seamlessness is key to the live strategy, … There’s a significant opportunity for revenue growth through advertising as it pertains to software as a service.

An amazing number of developers use the [Microsoft] tools. I am very, very passionate about how services can be brought to bear to help those people make money.

Our dream is to deliver a seamless experience where all the technology in your life and business comes together in a way that ‘just works’ for you.

Seamlessness is key to the live strategy. There’s a significant opportunity for revenue growth through advertising as it pertains to software as a service.

Clearly as the flexibility and potential of ‘mashing up’ and recombining application components gets closer to someone who understands the user’s needs, the value to that user increases.

We will be leaders in terms of understanding where ads really serve the user to get their jobs done, not just in a search box on the Web.

For all its tremendous innovation and its embracing of HTML and XML, [Microsoft] Office is not yet the source of key web data formats surely not to the level of PDF.

We currently have about a 10 percent share of the online market. We fully intend to grow this share.

a seamless weaving of hardware, software and devices.

What should we do to bring Office’s classic COM-based publish-and-subscribe capabilities to a world where RSS and XML have become the de facto publish-and-subscribe mechanisms? … Connected Office.

In its simplest form, the clipboard enabled the user to simply grasp the concept of moving a copy of the information from one application to another. Simply stated, I’d like to extend the clipboard user...

There will be very few companies who have that scale to build that infrastructure.

In just a few weeks time, several Microsoft product groups … built prototypes and demos, and found that it works and interoperates quite nicely,

We will design and license Windows and our Internet-based services as separate products, so customers can choose Windows with or without Microsoft’s services, … competing services can plug into Windows in the same manner as...

I believe at this juncture it’s generally very clear to each of us why we need to transform ? the competitors, the challenges, and the opportunities.

Lately, I’ve been living a bicoastal life. As a longtime Massachusetts resident who has benefited greatly from the incredible talent in this region, I’m excited that my new, bicoastal way of life allows me to...

[Then again, Microsoft is so vehemently competitive that it could yet prevail in videogames, searching and servers. Microsoft is] the world’s largest startup, … No one seems to feel comfortable in their own skin here....

Just as in the past, we must reflect upon what’s going on around us, and reflect upon our strengths, weaknesses and industry leadership responsibilities, and respond, … As much as ever, it’s clear that if...

Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons: The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model...

While we continue to make good progress on many fronts, a set of very strong and determined competitors is laser-focused on Internet services and service-enabled software,

I don’t even think we have begun to scratch the surface.

It’s clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know it is at risk, … We must respond quickly and decisively.

For enterprises, I think we’ve just barely scratched the surface about which systems can…be brought into the cloud in some way, shape or form.

So now there is a ‘second tsunami’ coming. I wonder just how hard Microsoft will slam into the bottom this time before they get it figured out, if they get it figured out correctly.

Services-enabled software really is going to change the nature of how almost everyone uses technology, from consumers to small businesses to enterprises, … in different forms and at different paces.