emily: how much time have you spent with satya nadella? do you see more opportunities to work closely with microsoft? meg: he has done a wonderful job and we have quite a close relationship with them. i think it was announced yesterday that we won their 2015 partner of the year award. so we are really proud of that. ♪ emily: do you find it troubling that there are still so few women in silicon valley and especially in leadership positions? meg: i think we can always do better. if i take industry as a whole -- and tech is a little bit behind here but my class at princeton had, you know, less than 20% women and the same was true at harvard, they are now 50% women. so part of this is simply generational. but part of this is making sure that women know that they can have a great career and have a family and do some other things. technology is a little bit more slow and i would say there are a couple of reasons why. it goes back to we have to get girls interested in science, technology, engineering, and math. emily: is there anything in particu

emily: how much time have you spent with satya nadella?nd do you see more opportunities to work closely with microsoft? meg: he has done a wonderful job -- marvelous job and we have quite a close relationship with them. i think it was announced yesterday that we won their 2015 partner of the year award. so we are really proud of that. we have a great partnership on the personal systems business. we are excited about the launch of windows 10. so i think the partnership between hp and microsoft is as strong as at least i have seen it since i have been at the company. emily: how much longer do you see yourself doing this? ♪ emily: do you find it troubling that there are still so few women in silicon valley and especially in leadership positions? meg: i think we can always do better. if i take industry as a whole -- and tech is a little bit behind here but my class at princeton had, you know, less than 20% women and the same was true at harvard business school. they are now 50% women. so part of this is simply generational. but part of this is

because of satya nadella, we've been able to work with them even though we compete on some of their productes. this has become a channel distribution opportunity for us to really advance our solutions in enterprise content management. in the quarter we actually signed a 6,000-seat deal at a customer called sally beauty holdings because of the ibm partnership and the joint solutions we're developing. and we have over a hundred joint customers today in our sales pipeline because of that partnership. so we're going to do partnerships both for channel distribution as well as for really enhancing our technology and the interoperability of our product with other cloud solutions. >> given that these great opportunities, how do you balance the idea of the market saying you want to be cash flow positive earlier yet at the same time that could constrain your growth? >> yeah, we spend a lot of time on this. our executive team, our board of directors, what we have shared is our commitment to positive free cash flow by the end of next fiscal year. that's the quarter ending january 2017. we are very comm