From A Client Perspective, I Really Think The Work Microsoft's Doing With Surface, With Hololens, With Xbox, That Stuff's Absolutely Essential To The Company's Future. Because Innovation In The Future Will Either Be From The Cloud Out To All Devices, Or From Devices As Supported By Software In The Cloud. I Think It's Important For Microsoft To Participate Both Ways.
I Can Tell You First-hand From My Experiences With Sacramento, The League Does Try To Honor The Fan Bases It Has, And Encourage Teams To Stay In Their Home Markets.
"there's No Ceo For The Government." But If You Were Ceo For A Day At The Government, Would You Have Tools And Reports And Wherewithal To Look At Government The Way A Business Would Look At Its Lines Of Business, Its Spending, Its Revenue? I've Actually Been Working, First By Myself And Then With A Group Of People, On Then On And Off, And Now Much More On, Almost Since The I Time Left Microsoft.
It Actually Turns Out To Be Much Harder To Really Understand Government Across State Local And Federal.
In A Sense Technology Is A Tool Of Sort Of Individual Choice, Individual Creativity, Individual Empowerment, Individual Access. My Kids Will Never Understand That It Used To Be Kind Of Hard To Access And Find Things, And Know What The World Knows And See What The World Sees. Yet It Becomes Easier And Easier Every Day.
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 Do Need To Have A Sense Of What You're Doing In Mobile Devices. I Had Put The Company On A Path. The Board As I Was Leaving Took The Company On A Path By Buying Nokia, They Kind Of Went Ahead With That After I Told Them I Was Going To Go. The Company, Between Me And The Board, Had Taken That Sort Of View. Satya, He's Certainly Changed That. He Needs To Have A Clear Path Forward. But I'm Sure He'll Get There.
There Are Other Ways I Think Of Myself As Spoiling Myself ... I ... Get A Massage Once A Week. Other People Can, I Didn't Used To, And I Can Now.
As A Shareholder I Have Expressed My Frustration With Not Getting More Information About Revenue And Margins From The Cloud.
In General, I'm Pretty Busy With The Other Things I Charted ... I Bought A Piece Of A Sports-tech Company. We Do A Lot Of Work With At The Clippers. I Think That'll Be Great. We're Really Looking At The Possibility Of Extending And Building A Real Over-the-top Distribution Channel With Value-added Services For The Clippers, That Could Lead To Other Partnerships And Investments. But Most Of The Stuff I'm Looking At Isn't Because I Say, "hey, I Want To Invest." It Sort Of Comes Around From The Work We're Doing With The Clippers.
