Chinese software developers should be able to work on the Linux kernel project, as a peer, with somebody in Finland, the U.S. or Australia, but they are not doing that,

It's hard for companies to compete and find software engineers.

If there's going to be an add-on for this or special software for that, there's going to be a very high learning curve for the IT department. You have to figure out if using so many is helping more than creating problems.

The software market remains highly competitive and our fourth quarter results were mixed by geography. We saw double-digit growth in the Americas, where we believe we gained market share in both the fourth quarter and full year. This was partially offset by weaker results in Europe.

We've changed the (hardware) problem to a software problem, which we know will lower costs, add much more flexibility and more abilities to fix it.

Did you yourself ever express your concerns to [former Intel Chief Executive Andrew] Grove that Intel's software work was beginning to overlap with Microsoft's software work?