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I'm Not An Insider. I'm Not On The Board. I'm An Outsider. That Implies A Certain Kind Of Separation ... Because The Company Can't, Without An Appropriate Nondisclosure And Trading Rules, Share Confidential Data With Me That It Would Not Share With Any Other Shareholder. You Could Say That Implies A Certain Kind Of Separation.

I Have Lots Of Sources Of Information About What's Going On At The Company. I Think I Have A Pretty Good Pulse On Where We Are And What People Are Thinking.

We'll Get A Chance To Go Through This [apple Versus Microsoft Debate] Again In Phones And Music Players. There's No Chance That The Iphone Is Going To Get Any Significant Market Share. No Chance. It's A $500 Subsidized Item. They May Make A Lot Of Money. But If You Actually Take A Look At The 1.3 Billion Phones That Get Sold, I'd Prefer To Have Our Software In 60% Or 70% Or 80% Of Them, Than I Would To Have 2% Or 3%, Which Is What Apple Might Get.

Great Companies With The Way They Work, First Start With Great Leaders.

At Microsoft I Had Many Years Of Experience And History And Seeing Connections. With My Direct Reports, The Job At Microsoft Was To Delegate And Then Be Able To Properly Review, But Not To Micromanage. To Have A Way Of Connecting And Integrating Without Getting In The Way.