With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That's both because of the physicality of computing - where the speed of light still matters - and because of geopolitics.

Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions.

The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.

To me, what Minecraft represents is more than a hit game franchise. It's this open-world platform. If you think about it, it's the one game parents want their kids to play.

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.