Presumably, there will an SEC filing coming about Nadella's contract. As president of the server and tools division, Nadella made $7.7 million in 2013 and COO Kevin Turner, the most interesting executive at Microsoft as his keynotes are actually full of information, took in $10.4 million. Born in Hyderabad, India, in 1967, Nadella's hobbies include cricket and poetry, according to the brief bio post this week on Microsoft's home page announcing his appointment. He'll be able to set company direction and tell the staff how many outs there are in an over and what it means to wander lonely as a cloud. The most pertinent part of Nadella's remarks is his statement that "The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform." Transform is what Wall Street is looking for. Gates, who left the CEO job in 2000, remains on the board of directors but turned his chairman's job over to lead independent director, John Thompson. Gates' new title on the board is Founder and Technology Advisor, which sounds an awful lot like the role Scott Cook, founder of Intuit, fills at that company. The official announcement had a beautiful choice of words in telling the world that "Gates steps up to the new role".