A friend of mine was cooking fish one night. I went into the kitchen two or three times and heard him bending over the fish and saying things like "I cheated on my wife last month. I stole money from my father's wallet when I was a kid."

The installed base in the United States lags other major markets in moving from license sales to subscriptions, Sage said this week. That came as the United Kingdom-based company issued its trading update for the first quarter ended December 31. The company reported growth of 5.1 percent over the year-earlier quarter.

For the first time in several quarters, Dynamics CRM (and CRM Online) was not cited as the revenue driver for the Dynamics line. In its SEC filings this week, Microsoft said that for the second quarter ended December 31 Dynamics revenue was up 7 percent, "driven by Dynamics 365 revenue growth. "