Chris Liddell Quotations

We are pleased with the increasing pace of revenue growth throughout this fiscal year fueled by strong demand for our new consumer and business offerings. We are now accelerating our investments in the business to drive future growth, which is reflected in our financial guidance. We believe next fiscal year will deliver even stronger double-digit revenue growth than this year.

We've also maintained our focus on working capital, reducing it by NZ$202 million over the last 12 months

We remain confident in our growth prospects and have an exciting product line-up, which includes major releases like Xbox 360, SQL Server 2005, Office 12 and Windows Vista.

We're still talking about Vista launching in the second half of this year, so no change there.

We were clearly happy with the overall financial performance.

My day, normally speaking, is: I go the gym in the morning, I go and work for 10 or 12 hours, I have dinner, I go to sleep.

Revenue growth of 29% in the business group that have had recent product launches demonstrates our ability to choose the right places to focus our innovation efforts and make investments.

I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.

Frank brings to Microsoft great talent and skills both in finance and business leadership. His work in creating world-class Finance organizations and leadership in the finance community will build upon Microsoft's existing Finance talent and functional excellence.

I don't sit down and relax very much. I don't desire to.

We are forecasting continued corporate demand for our server products.

What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.

I switch on and off very easily; I'm inherently lucky in that sense. I sleep well.

Our search advertising revenue has not been as strong as we'd like,

Our market share remains broadly where it was in the last few quarters, ... It's a monetization issue, and that is something we're going to have to reverse in the future.

The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,

We feel good about the quarter ahead and good about the year ahead,

We pushed the supply chain as hard as we could to sell as many as we could. We haven't yet reached the positive position of having supply equal demand, because to some extent we continue to see very good demand.

We are now accelerating our investments in the business to drive future growth, which is reflected in our financial guidance. We believe next fiscal year will deliver even stronger double-digit (percentage) revenue growth than this year.

We are not expecting the trend to significantly weaken from that, but expect that moderating number to be more like what we expect for next year.

We have made a strategic decision with respect to next year that, given the set of opportunities and the revenue growth potential we see, we're willing to make that trade-off.

We are moving forward on Ad Center and taking control of our own destiny.

This will be the first time since calendar year 1995 that we have had simultaneous launches of these two flagship products and we will make a considerable marketing and sales investment for these launches and, to a lesser extent, for the launch of Exchange 12.

We've had a good start to an important year for the company.

We had sales of over NZ$1 billion for the last quarter -- the result of developing new businesses, markets, products & services. Our exports continue to grow with New Zealand export sales for the first half up over 19 percent on the same period last year

We have decided to aggressively invest next year in a number of areas, and (costs) do add up.

We have decided to add investments in a number of areas, and they do add up. Investment today will drive future success.

Customer demand for our new Dynamics CRM 3.0 software has been above our expectations, and we are forecasting the recent strength to continue through the second half.

Engineering is a fantastic base for any career.

I've always found diversity more interesting than specialisation. I like mixing it up across years, within days, within weeks - that's what stimulates me, gives me energy.

see more of a ramp-up throughout the course of the year.

So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.

A lot of that inherent growth in Australia, and strength in the economy, has helped keep those housing volumes up, but we would say by the end of this year or the beginning of next year, all other things being equal, for it to come off slightly.

As we moves closer to the launch on Office 12 we expect corporate customers to increasingly prefer annuity licensing programs when they evaluate purchases.

confidence about the future performance of the company.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

The growth in our core businesses was healthy during the quarter driven by strength in Server and Tools, and the success of our Windows Client products in a robust PC market.

The customer reaction to our newly launched products has been fantastic. We feel confident about how we will end the year.