He also stressed that Microsoft didn't just give him a checklist to follow but that he had plenty of check-ins and meetings with Microsoft to push this ahead.
Such evidence pushes this hypothesis far ahead of the competing hypothesis that it is just an epiphenomenon, but work continues.
I was reading on the shag-carpeted floor of someone else's house, halfway into a book that had been annoying me, but amusing and thrilling me just enough to keep me pushing ahead (this after a failed first attempt at reading Infinite Jest), and I came to the midpoint of Octet.
This is pushing India ahead of Japan, helping it become the world's third largest smartphone market.
In pushing ahead with this plan, Obama was taking a political risk that his campaign strategists may now be regretting.
Given the huge research and other capital costs involved, why are all five firms pushing ahead in this business?
"We're pushing ahead with this process and trying to deal with Ayatollah's concerns," said a top administration official.
"Now that the savings have been called into question, the government must ask itself why it is pushing ahead with this controversial, unfair policy.
The foundation says pushing ahead with this change, even on a revised timetable, would be a mistake, particularly when the same savings can be made elsewhere.
Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, attacked the government for "pushing ahead with this politically motivated fire sale of Royal Mail to fill the hole left by George Osborne's failed plan".
"The fact that he's pushing ahead with this without any societal oversight is very worrying," said Jim Thomas, a program manager at the ETC Group, a technology watchdog group based in Canada.
