With Microsoft's information control leaking like the Titanic, there should be no surprise that this week the soft giant named Satya Nadella as the next CEO effective immediately. Ah, Satya, we barely knew ye. So the next question about Nadella, who once headed development for Dynamics, is how much he will he make not that he has taken over from Steve Ballmer. Neither Ballmer or Gates, with their billions in stock, ever took much salary, at least much as measured in the world of big company CEOs. Ballmer had $1.3 million in total compensation for fiscal 2013.