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That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.

Satya Nadella

Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example — it is the world’s best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem.
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That means at times we’ll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition.
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I marvel every day at how people can excel – and that’s what really gets me going.
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Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
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You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you’re successful, sometimes your not, but it’s the average that counts.
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If you are going to have a risk-taking culture, you can’t really look at every failure as a failure, you’ve got to be able to look at the failure as a learning opportunity.
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That’s the kind of person that I want to trust. That’s the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.’
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A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
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Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on.
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You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.
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Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.
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What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.
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Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there’s someone new who’s born with a new idea.
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Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
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In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications.
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Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.
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