Dec. 6, 2001
I wanted to share some thoughts about how the Internet is going to evolve and what that means in terms of the consumer experience of the Internet. It is fair to say that we're quite sure that we're just at the beginning of this, just scratching the service. Today, very few people are leading what we call the Web lifestyle. Over the next decade, we think this will become pervasive and that's why we talk about this as the digital decade.

Nov. 30, 2001
There's nothing more exciting than what software can do to help users and we see that what we've done so far is really just scratching the surface.

Nov. 11, 2001
The digital decade is not just about any particular aspect of computing, taking enterprises, knowledge workers and homes and building standards that connect all of those together. The key piece in the center is trustworthy systems, systems that do what you expect on an extremely reliable basis. So in each of these areas we have new scenarios, new ways that people will be using their computers that they never did before.

Oct. 25, 2001
For 25 years Microsoft has been working to take software and build the best possible tool that we can for our users. Today is a major milestone in that effort. Today we launch worldwide Windows XP. This is a version of Windows that will take the PC industry to new heights. We can improve the way people do their work, we can improve the way they get information and entertain themselves at home.

Oct. 23, 2001
.NET depends on three big bets: A big bet around XML, a big bet around a new platform, a platform with smart clients, rich servers, connected by a number of services that are always available out in the Internet, and finally these applications, when you get onto the device, have to tailor their appearance and their richness to that device. And on the device we need a level of richness and ease of use that we haven't had before.

Sept. 5, 2001
Microsoft has always been an optimistic company, believing that software could create tools that would really have no bounds in terms of what was possible. And so when I sat down with Nathan Myhrvold and talked about building this research group, we talked about speech recognition, advanced 3D graphics, where if you wanted to see what a city was like, you could just zoom in and travel around in a realistic representation, we talked about having cameras that would see people, recognize who they are, respond to them according to their interests and preferences, we talked about machines that could reason, could look into data and find patterns there that would help companies decide how to make business decisions, and so we said, "These are the kinds of things that Microsoft needs to do."

Aug. 7, 2001
Microsoft was founded about 25 years ago, and I can remember at the time thinking, "Well, if I go out and do this really commercial stuff, I’m going to miss these big advances in AI that will be coming very soon." And so I come from the school of AI optimist. You know, I can remember being at Harvard and back then AI was the Greenblatt Chess Program and Maxima and Eliza and people literally felt that within five to ten years that some of these tough problems would be solved.

July 16, 2001
I titled my speech today "Creating the Digital Decade" because I want to share with you how I feel we’re just at the beginning of what can be done with digital technology. In fact, in the last year as some of the hype and mania have gone out of the system, I think for the first time we can say people are really underestimating the business benefits and the concrete things that will happen in the years ahead.

June 19, 2001
I think people still underestimate in the decade ahead how much digital approaches will change the way they work and the way they live. The PC today has changed productivity, document creation. It's changed communications to a limited degree by adding in electronic mail. But things like how you record a meeting and go back and find out what was said or share it with other people, things like how you take notes, how you deal with photos and music, the way that business properties are coordinated, particularly when you have not just computers exchanging information but knowledge workers in different companies who want to work together. In every one of these areas we've barely scratched the surface.

May 31, 2001
So here we are, the big launch of Office XP, the most popular piece of application software ever. People have noticed that this year is a big one for Microsoft, a big one for the world of software. We not only have today's launch, but a lot of other important breakthroughs that are coming out this year. In the fall, we'll have Windows XP, we'll have Xbox, we'll have a breakthrough for developers, which is the Visual Studio.NET product. And in the area of services we'll have constant improvements to MSN and all the online properties around the MSN community.

May 23, 2001
Every few decades, the way we think about handling information and using computing changes fairly dramatically, from the centralized mainframe era with databases there to the world of personal computing to the last decade where there's been a lot of Internet publishing, a modest amount of transactions -- but really just using the Internet to present screens.

April 2, 2001
This new era is bringing with it some very interesting challenges in user interface. For the first time, we will have multiple devices. Multiple devices that are the same, so a PC at work and a PC at home. Today it's very hard to synchronize the information between those devices. In fact, in some ways, you want differences, so you want the system to understand you're in a different mode, a different context, and so some information spans and some does now.

March 26, 2001
I believe that we’re entering into a new era, an era where a new approach to how applications are created is taking place, and a way of looking at the PC for a broader set of tasks. Every time we move from one era to the next, the kinds of things we did with the PC are expanding. The era that we’re entering now is one where the key protocol is XML, allowing the richness of the server and the richness of the client to be complementary.

March 19, 2001
HailStorm advances the .NET vision, which encompasses the idea of having your information wherever you want to go -- this includes the future cell phones, your TV set, your tablet form factor PC, your desktop PC, wherever you are, and whatever role you're in, whether you're working, you're acting as a family member, you're acting on behalf of some other group you belong to, your information will be there available in the context that's most appropriate for what you're trying to get done.

Feb. 28, 2001
We often think of students as the ultimate knowledge workers -- their whole activity is centered around finding information and sharing information. And so all these things we're doing about being able to notify each other -- being able to see videos of different things, search those videos to find the part that might be of interest, the work we're doing to annotate these different things and let you search through those, these have profound impact for students as well as knowledge workers.

Feb. 13, 2001
The Windows team is dedicated to bringing a new version of the Windows that pushed the frontiers, that simplified the things that have been hard, and that surprise people by letting them do things with their PC that they've never done before.

Jan. 6, 2001
Throughout the house, whether it's a music speaker or picture frame, something on your refrigerator that lets you look at your family schedule, all of your information will be available.