The legal process can be hard on anyone who goes through it, and the last four years have been challenging for all of us here at Microsoft, and for me personally, ... But despite the many twists and turns in the case, I've always had faith in our company and our employees and in the magic of the software we're creating.

more like us than anyone else we have ever competed with.

Anyone here hear any good lawyer jokes lately?

Anyone who thinks this isn't a hypercompetitive business is crazy,

Hey, I never told anyone to buy my stock! Besides, no one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year-if you check, you'll see that that's more than most people make in a lifetime!