Wait Till the NEXT One!

First of all, there's tons of people who help make those decisions, so I wouldn't overstate my role in the past. But I'll have full involvement, the [same] involvement I've ever had in the key decisions for those products. What we decide over even the next nine months will really set the direction for those products.

So can you give us an indication of what the next Windows will be like?

Well, it will be more user-centric.

What does that mean?

That means that right now when you move from one PC to another, you've got to install apps on each one, do upgrades on each one; moving information between them is very painful. We can use Live Services to know what you're interested in. So even if you drop by a kiosk or somebody else's PC, we can bring down your home page, your files, your fonts, your favorites and those things. So that's kind of the user-centric thing that Live Services can enable. [Also] by the next release there will be a much bigger bet on speech and digital ink. So we've got a pretty good outline.

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