Windows Live Academic Search is another example of our continued efforts to bring innovative search offerings into new categories. We are looking forward to hearing from our customers during the beta period, which will help us improve upon what is available today.

We've decided that the actual digitization is not our core competency. What we want to invest all our efforts in is adding value on top of that content.

Do I think people will read 'Moby Dick' on their computers? No.

It's certainly much more complex, but it's the right way to do it. For us, protecting copyright is really a core philosophical belief. I think it's the only way, long term, to make sure that this actually comes to market in the right way.

Search is now the Web gateway to information. It's not just search for what's on the Web. Our end goal is, every question somebody has, we want to be able to answer. You can't do that with just Web pages.