That was such a fun video so starting more with your personality with your loved of cricket it actually bought something for you. What did the anecdotes to tell in the book is with your eye at the Conference Call you like to hold of it kookaburra cricket ball so tell us about your love of cricket how the influence is your life. Fake you so much now i have a lot of kookaburra balls now but i really appreciate. Crow rate cut bin india this english game is more than a religion. With the artifact of history so for me when i look back eight isen true the other day i had a Great Fortune as they were explaining to get off the train and those that play under so they teach you so many lessons that is a place of us have played a lot of cricket than win back recently. So then i write about how to compete so i was a bowler and i was going that day the guy takes the wicket with the breakthrough then gives the ball back. That incident had a lot of influence because why did he do it . He broke all of my confidence but for some decided i will give the ball back. That is what leaders do. Also in teachers insurance. In durance. There is a huge debate in the community now is like baseball for us it is the surest form of cricket i love the five day it is like a russian novel it is beautiful. So the debate how does that continue in its popularity . But i was very clear. See you sat down with espn . What was that like . That was thewh highlight. It was fun i had never been to lords in london which is the home of crickets i watched it on the television so to go to the Hallowed Ground it is a fascinating thing that happens and cricket has a lot of literature this is one of those places reading about everything for a lifetime i dont know who was i excited. Look at the a picture made the third ceo in makers of history along with Steve Ballmer said what was going to your mind at this point . Would you wish you could tell y that guy in the middle right now what he was about to face . I grew up in the company that bill and steve built. Everything that i have learned, everything about me wasea shaped by the company worked for witches microsoft announced 35 years something that would not have happened otherwise which is the partnership from bill and steve. I distinctly remember leading up to that day because not long before that i knew i would be ceo. But the thing that i was thinking the most and based on the people around me even in the photograph, asking that existential question to answer myself. Why do we as a company exist . What a silly way to start but i do believe that. Companies exist for a reason their needs to be a sense of purpose for longterm success. You cannot be bound by one brown door product or technology but has to go beyond that. But what is the course sense of purpose to help drive . And the culture . To reinforce with every changing technology. The entire book came about it is amazing of a destination. The ceo going through the process of transformation whiches is continuous. You never ever reach your destination. How do you keep hitting refreshened be smart about it . I was 93 and a half years ago about now what i know a bit of the end all i know is a need to learn a lot more. Host this strikes me build and paul and steve had each other there was a partnership really. You dont have a singular partner but a legion of superheros. How has that changed your leadership the way that it is run and the culture of microsoft . Steve the switch to me onto the sand reflected about how they built the company all the teams came and went so the way that they need to operate is different especially talking to paul recently is when it struck me with the scope and size and complexity a end operation so even when he tried to do as tenure in his microsoft is for the leadership team. There a is no way i could operate but steve to do anybody a job better than anybody. And what i wanted to be sure to have that ownership for this is our company. Day wanted people to feel is their company with their own personal philosophy. You were a the consummate insider . You are not the outside person to make change but now stock prices double n there is some externalt credibility what do you plan to do to make even bigger bets now on makers of future . . You are right to tax businesses in particular are the constant need to renew itself because we have the attribute they are served by gary transitions so you have to see things that hurt changing and then go after them in a strong way. So the market will hold to accountable to make sure that you can walk the walk to produce the results so to get that batting average that is good and with microsoft think about this here we are. Fighting it out with a whole set of new characters. I think that shows we have that capability and then to keep at it and i am excited with mixeded reality with quantum in these efforts that started in steve who started the crowd pushed and those from long before conventionalnv wisdom. In todays through that journey. And to be very grounded with what needed changing. One of the things that struck me. What you have been doing so apart from the rose petal anecdote one of my favorite anecdotes how they decided to reorient wall street we will not focus but set a target of crowd revenue with interesting mind exercise toge get wall street to look elsewhere. Is is that a good approach . So one of the key things to be clear. What is the trend we are capitalizing space . So that will be very important for that confidence but the reality is in then with applications in then to be distributed. And then in to make sure it is clear. So you have to take that risk to walk the walk that has helped the st. Is a Management Team and we will never be done. So i have to show our progress that will give us permission with that mixed reality work but that is what companies have to do and you also have to accrue power because one of the major cultural changes was not to fall in love with of lagging indicators of success which is usage and Customer Satisfaction to make sure we are tracking bats. Talk about the future of technology it starts in the unexpected place with your son born this Cerebral Palsy and you talk about your early struggles. But it has totally changed her outlook on your life than what best through that. He was bored and i was 29 years old and perhaps he has shaped a lot of who i am more harder parts of writing thede book to go back and reflect in more concrete terms. My wife and me were the only children so it was exciting looking forward to the nursery and how quickly she could get back to her work as an architect that she distorted he was born with severe brain damage leading to a Cerebral Palsy. And i struggled for perhaps multiple years because none of the well they dont plans with a midlevel for entrylevel microsoft i needed to recalibrate. End of the by watching my wife from the sea section from the of bridges to be given the best shot that is what got me out of my stupor to say what do i as a father have to do . All these years to be blessed with that occupational therapist in with the role of technology to go through those hardships there is even one incident that one day i was sitting waiting for him to come out of surgery and all of the equipment around me i said these all better work they were on windows. [laughter]nd so it gave me the feeling that understanding of the responsibility of the platformli company to be in in every power grid in the economy. How does that change your views ofur acceptability on technology . So that personal life is a great l influence but one of the things i am seeing is an with the driver of true innovation but those that use is the cutting edge to give anybody with visual impairment and a coworker of mine have now they can go into her own cabinet should cafeteria there are braille readers but she wants to walk into the conference room. So she could fully participate. To hold that up to a the world is really cool so it gives peoplepl more empowerment. Similarly with of learning tools use said we have amazing technology. To change the outcomes of kids with dyslexia but if you have learning tools but Steve Gleason was a group of passionate people what can you do for als patients . All the other vessels can be moved so can they communicate . So now the i gaze is the input mechanism so with that fundamental recognition not just about accessibility but to think about that is something that youf do but the reality is the one that is often so point in our life we all really need some help that is the universal truth. Sorry better design products to help everybody. But they just dont kid with the one week it is after that with long distances to carve out with accessibility and blood mixed reality with that exciting frontiers to make a Better Company a better everything company. Talk about the future your identify three trends in the book. Is your review will drive the future what will the world be like as they come to fruition for our grandkids . What do you think about now laying a foundation for the future . One of the hardest things to do is speculate but how do they manifest . Depended on where we start. We have then on this journey to create metaphors but for the first time to take what you see to superimpose an with analog and Digital Media could merge. Called augmented reality. Our view is that is a vital you get to set and we are in the early stages but ultimately our dream is people will have devices that will be like the glasses you wear and you can set the dial and be able to see all of the computing experience wite would be motivated by this medium. Now in order to do that, one of the things if they checked with the holographic processing unit because what it does is it to understand everything that is happening and then is able to. But it doesnt solve the challenge, so i think ai is going to be part of bringing forth these new metaphors. I look at what we are doing with mixed reality as a gesture first interface because its all about the speech and so that is the capability we want to build. I feel one of the challenges we have and we talked about all the things about until learning tools but even one of the things im most excited about is aei that helps me with my scarce commodity which is time. Every day i spent lots of sent f emails, get lots of emails and make commitments in emails which i forget, but it saves me every day because it tells me you send an email saying you would followup on thursday and then it tells me have you followed up. So it helps me get more out of my time and that is what yo we e trying to do with Something Like cortana. I always say it can help you by engaging more on things that take away time, but the real thing we need to solve is how does it give you back more time for the things that matter the most to you. And quantum to me if you say this is amazing we have a mixed reality, what is the one thing we need more of, its computing. In spite of all the progress made, what is still lets talk about all of the computational problems. We cannot yet model that natural andsign food production. We cant model the catalyst that absorbs the data carbon in the air or build a superconducting material for the lossless power transmission. There are computational problems if you try to resolve it using a classical computer it will take all of time fro the time from bg of time until now. We dont have that time, and thats where i think the advances in quantum computing are important. I think of these three things and they will not be juxtaposed to each other but i do believe that these changes are going to be profound in their impact in our lives and in our work. En negative course the conventional wisdom is this is the last the vice youll ever need or want or have been if not there is no way with those of vengeance board after because of the pc share going up but because of what they did so the question really is how do we meet the reality of today . In the way i think about it is first applications are used with i phoned and android. But that was there on the mac before windows was a platform. We want to make sure whether stipe or office or outlook they are used every day. Whether gaming or communication. But look at the change of phone sure what is a mobile device today . So the category nobody thought there would be such a category to get to the point now that we have good competition but what is the next core function change . And what are the new big changes . Everything up in the air is you can start to see your computing in front of you reaching out to your phone is the hub for everything so we have to do our best work but to be very committed to make sure our services are available with applications as a mobile end point put the next set of devices or interface. What about software or hardware . We dont have this parfum hardware. That is the reality of it. But the reality is that we cannot compete and attracted developers so what theyre doing is to make sure we can service those enterprise customers it is a like a phone operating system that is separate so that is where we are to say what will we do . And call in with next reality and gaming and applications. You last a good question. What will you do . Is there any type of form factor. Just me and a few of my friend. So with that capability we now have is a Software Device not even just a device as a system but the fact we have that capability to do an end to end to innovate new categories. We had to amazon top executives yesterday in then in the seattle region perduring with the amazon. What are your results from amazon what they have seen . It is a very impressive company. But jeff and his team have done. So there is a cross pollination of talent and that is good for a the region but look at what they are trying to do so at any point in time while delivering to customers so to reach them where i had learned at microsoft that is what i learned from what we did from the macintosh to start with. But the assistant with that productivity. Soda with that capability that is the partnership that we have. I am not a believer of one agent each will have that different characteristic you should be able to scaffold live together with a habitual user that is what we talked about. Will we ever see microsoft headquarters somewhere else in north america . [laughter] we are happy where we are. In fact, one of the things we are committed to is the development happening in many parts of the world and united states. With offices in new york and boston and cambridge. So at least i m in in notary to talk about headquarters to i am happy where we are. That amazon example with those industry partnerships was those awkward moments that you have . And how have you navigated those acquisitions . And with that zero some if there is a zero some competition. In this day and age we are lucky as as a company and as a community to shake every walk of life. It is shortsighted so that is a attitude and that is what shapes that but at the same time there is the disruption in the space so that changes the Business Model and everything. But could the users of those is integration that we did something in the past so i want to bring a laboratory maturity with Customer Obsession with their own strategic all the time and then compete. We havent talked about the largest acquisition in history in the free of the tyine like negative attendees was privacy the data is what you acquired through. How are you respectful of future privacy concerns . That franchise that you say build up the trust and the value that is of paramount importance and it is very clear we only do the things that the community adds value it is the date of the 500 million and that is one of the things from microsoft we dont all the data it is the user data or conversational data and essentially we are interested to make it secure and make sure they are in control and those principles guide everything we do with linkdin. If there is value then to ask for permission and get that permission and that is to legislate that cement should we expect the acceleration . In terms of the products . I feel very good with the real acceleration even with the next quarter of the earnings with five product integration with the dynamics 365 that is all there today it is one of those places that they can do that large acquisition with their culture and then add the product integration exclusively . And that is the strategy. Before we close talking about your personal Community Initiatives your of the board for its Cancer Research center probe even Kevin Johnson was here yesterday along with the doctor so what are you hoping to accomplish . It is a real privilege with those organizations and the community if i worked for cavan that microsoft and he was here yesterday and i very excited what starbucks is doing all to believe it is about that experience with Digital Technology and to contribute is fantastic and even what fred is doing is inspiring to meet to have that the goal by the turn of the next decade and a do think that is a goal where one of the big limiters is how can you take the research that is happening and make it comprehensible in a way so a new hypothesis could be like fred koch and other places . I am learning so much to gain the amazing leader that is fantastic to be a part of these organizations. So it is there a line so if that summarizes your view of the teacher personally and the technology . As you are getting ready to disclose what those quantum efforts i had a chance to spend a lot of time with Michael Friedman with a mathematician who was calling me do you know, youre square roots . Do you know square roots are the imaginary number . But it turns out they have a lot to do with Quantum Computers with the pulitzer prizewinning it is called imaginary numbers. And it goes Something Like this. The soul like the square root of negative one is an impossibility and i think it just captures all lot to seek out the un imaginable and with the possible and the poetry of the square roots of imaginary numbers. Ceo of microsoft thank you very much. [applause]