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Women themselves are an emerging market.
Do one thing well, and then build from there.
We all have to think about the emerging markets.
Acompli is just a great example of a fabulous app.
I worked on anti-submarine warfare for surface ships.
Great things happen when you converge services and devices.
We try not to look at everything through a competitive lens.
You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.
I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.
I spend a lot of time in the Valley. I'm probably down there every other week or so.
It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.
'Rather than fighting over a piece of the pie, can we grow the pie?' is really our model.
The 14th of 15 kids, I was the second youngest - not a coveted spot on the family totem pole.
Gaming provides us with some very good signals about consumers and what they're interested in.
I envision a world where our smartphone is central to our lives in a non-obtrusive and intelligent way.
Really, we don't look at deals as 'big' or 'small': we look at things that will solve a problem for us.
It's not just about checking the box on corporate social responsibility. It's about hitting our bottom line.
As our smartphone becomes even smarter, mobile technology should actually take the burden out of our daily lives.
There are more and more women entering into the workforce themselves. More and more of them are making more money.
Deals are always a bit lumpy. We look at, 'Is it solving a problem for us?' And if it does, we move to acquisition.
To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.
We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.
I just feel like you should be able to have a respectful work environment, because if you do, you'll be your best self.
Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice.
When you dig in, two big titans clashing, what good is that? It's not good for either of us; it's not good for the industry.
The industry trend is that everything is moving to the cloud, and most of our customers are in this very heterogeneous world.
It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.
If a company has a navigation system or a database or a virtual assistant they like better, Microsoft will meet them in the middle.
If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not necessarily an algorithm.
Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.
At Microsoft, we know first-hand how passionate entrepreneurs can change the world. We believe that technology can empower everyone to achieve more.
Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.
We look for partners who are solving a problem for us. If they've already solved it, we'd much rather try to partner with them than try to rebuild it.
As more and more of our world becomes part of the wireless network, I see the mobile phone becoming a central command station for everything around us.
The proliferation of mobile broadband networks combined with local area hot spots is bringing the dream of seamless and ubiquitous connectivity closer to reality.
I think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere along the way, they veer off of that.
We fully recognized that our customers have a variety of devices. They're carrying all sorts of things. And we want to bring our world-class apps to those devices.
As the world continues its love affair with smartphones and tablets, mobile has become so essential to our lives that most people couldn't imagine life without it.
More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.
When a culture is broken, the cracks show - morale is weakened, but so is profit and performance. That's why culture has to be at the core of any business transformation.
You're sitting in the car for many, many minutes a day. Can that be part of your new office? Can it be your new desk, a place where you actually get work done? We believe it can.
The opportunity to build new and surprising partnerships to help Microsoft succeed in a mobile-first, cloud-first world is truly exciting, and I look forward to leading these efforts.
Together with Adobe, we're committed to fostering creativity and a culture of teamwork for our shared customers so they can unlock the opportunities of today's rapidly evolving workplace.
I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
I would try to be super-assertive in meetings and, you know, pound my hand off the table, and it never ended well. People would say, 'What are you beating the table for?' It's not natural for me.
M&A at Microsoft is a team sport for the senior leadership group. They're all involved in it, and we all play different roles. My role is the first centralized business development role at Microsoft.
Culture used to be viewed as the 'touchy-feely' side of business, but that's no longer the case. If you don't have a defined culture behind you, then you aren't going to be effective at executing your strategy.
We have such a huge demand for engineers in this country, both male and female. We need to find a way to do a better sales job on these young girls so we can get them interested in a field that is very rewarding.
Cyanogen has done an interesting job with their version of Android - the Cyanogenmod. And they're on 50-million-plus devices. And that's just another ecosystem that we wanted to tap into and to bring our Office apps to.
Live Nation is one of the most unique, exciting companies in the world and has remained at the forefront of the live entertainment industry by continuing to innovate and bring live entertainment to more fans around the globe.