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 have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.

It's the most tested, most widely-implemented product in the test phase of anything we've ever built. It's rock solid. We've got it deployed on literally hundreds of thousands of desktops. It's ready to go.

A breakup of Microsoft, I think, would be an awful thing for consumers and for the industry. The real issue in a possible breakup would be the harm it does to innovation,

We recognize that some provisions in our existing Windows licenses have been ruled improper by the court, so we are providing computer manufacturers with greater flexibility and we are doing this immediately so that computer manufacturers can take advantage of them in planning for the upcoming release of Windows XP,