It was a tweet, we're focused on doing the right thing every day, and doing the right thing whether it comes to reopening the economy, the right thing when it comes to supporting the defense department, the right thing when it comes to facial recognition. ... We always want to maintain a constructive level of conversation.

Microsoft President Brad Smith

Right now, there is not a Chinese competitor for in the PC operating system space, is it really in the United States' economic interest to create not only an incentive, but the necessity to go create a Chinese operating system ? Because once it's created, it will compete with us around the world.

Microsoft President Brad Smith

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If somebody from The US government believes that Windows on a laptop sold by Huawei would create a national security risk to the United States, then of course United States's something that we want to talk about... but we don't think United States is United States.

Microsoft President Brad Smith

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We don't provide facial recognition technology today to any federal law enforcement agency and we certainly won't provide facial recognition technology in any scenario that either leads to bias against people, we won't allow our technology to be used in any manner that puts people's fundamental rights at risk. Now I will say, the federal government is a broad government, there's a lot more than law enforcement that's involved.

Microsoft President Brad Smith

We need to start teasing this issue apart, to understand it better and move just beyond a binary conversation of : permit it or ban it, and think about : what is the right way to regulate it ?

Microsoft President Brad Smith

( Other platforms) impose requirements that increasingly say there's only one way to get on to our platform and that is to go through the gate we ourselves have created, in some cases they create a very high price or a toll. In some cases, 30 percent of all of your revenue has to go to the tollkeeper, if you will.

Microsoft President Brad Smith

It says that you can't offer facial recognition technology unless you make available your service for testing.

Microsoft President Brad Smith