We're going to triple in size from 200 to 600 scientists in the next couple of years and branch out geographically. We've already gone outside the U.S. to set up a lab in Cambridge, England, and we're looking for other locations. It's a big world out there, and we don't expect to lure everyone to Redmond. It's extremely exciting to be doing something contrarian, growing while so many other organizations are downsizing. The problem with speech recognition is that 95 percent accuracy isn't good enough.
Good products are still five years away.
Even if they take 25 years they will still be worth it, but I always say five years because anything longer sounds like infinity. Thousands of software patents out there are probably bogus, but it's tough to know what to do about that, so for now it behooves us to keep filing patents. We've paid hundreds of millions of dollars on claims that, in my opinion, are bogus. User interfaces are great for a research lab, because they are bottomless pits. You can study them forever.