I don’t recall either of them on the ones to which I listened and even if they did, I have forgotten, it was a long time ago. Maybe it’s just that Nadella, as the new kid of the block, needs to be visible. Personally, I think this is the way to do business - the top person should get up there and offer their neck for the analysts to chop - but I’m not making all that money so what do I know. Outside of that, there’s not much to write about for this market. Microsoft issued its usual brief bit of information about Dynamics – up 13 percent over last year, with CRM Online “nearly doubling.” The company stopped issuing revenue figures for Dynamics a few years ago.
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Microsoft did its usual and reported a gazillion dollars in results for the year ended June 30. But that is not the most interest thing about the earnings webcast for the fiscal 2014 results. The thing that stood out is that CEO Satya Nadella participated in the event. And you may not think this is special – after all don’t CEOs take part in the earnings presentations? In the overwhelming number of cases, that’s true. But in Microsoft’s, it hasn’t been the practice. If former CEO Steve Ballmer was on any of the calls, I don’t remember and I started listening to them after the purchase of Great Plains in 2001, back when Bill Gates was CEO.
