and one day i went actually to meet steve balmer and asked him are you go to write a book. he said no i'm into the future, thinking of all the things i'm going to do moving forward. that is when it hit me, that while we as a company and me as a c.e.o. are going through this hard process of what i describe as this continuous process of renewal, let may reflect on it. it's not definitely a detion nation-- destination to be reached, but the continuous process. the unanswered questions and the reflection is what caused me to write the book. >> glor: the tragedy in las vegas and the c.e.o. of microsoft coming up. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by the following: bank of america, life better connected. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. i'm jeff glor, charlie rose is away on assignment. a gunman opened fire on a music festival from the 32nd floor of a hotel room in las vegas last night. at least 58 people were killed and

that was some of our conversation with former microsoft ceo steve balmer. almer. his thoughts on the knicks' legacy and the future of artificial intelligence. this is bloomberg. ♪ cory: back to the l.a. clippers owner steve ballmer. emily chang sat down with ballmer, former microsoft ceo, of course. she asked what he thinks about the current ceo, what it's like to watch him take over. steve: i think his book was actually pretty good about that. he recognizes the good, he recognizes the things that needed to be changed. i think he's navigated that very, very well. from my perspective, you know, we knew we needed to get into the cloud. i got that started. he has really taken it to another level and i respect the fact he has had to do things differently. i knew things would have to be done differently in that area. that's the reason it was a good time for a change, if you will and the hardware's a whole different deal. he's pushed that along with xbox and surface and i kind of respect that needed things done differently. and overtime, things need to be shaken up and