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… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
In terms of the public positioning of the company, Satya's [Nadella] done a very good job. He sort of pivoted in a… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
When you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
The company [Microsoft] really has to chart a direction in mobile devices. Because if you're going to be mobile-first, cloud-first you really… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
As a shareholder I have expressed my frustration with not getting more information about revenue and margins from the cloud. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
I think PCs are going to continue to shift in form factor. The real question is: What's a PC? — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
Every NBA arena has six cameras in the ceiling. The question is what does the software do with video feeds? How to surface that… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
I think there are lots of opportunities to improve the product. When you read the press, people say, "Oh, the product needs improvement." I… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
The way I do things I usually always prefer to have a very clear strategy and be very focused. At the same time to… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
At Microsoft I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was to delegate… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making. — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
I don't think there is one size that fits all [] I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
In many ways I think the company's doing quite a good job. If you look at the transition to Office 365 we started when… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company.… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share
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