I fully agree! He should have just said "I know it's a huge problem, and candidly I don't have the answer, the research shows that women get short shrift for as

I fully agree! He should have just said "I know it's a huge problem, and candidly I don't have the answer, the research shows that women get short shrift for asking for raises, and there doesn't seem to be a clear good way to do it. Of course, that's something we don't like to see at Microsoft, but changing/countering subtle biases is extremely hard, and this conference has inspired me to allocate some resources, and take a hard look at what is possible here"