Call it the Steve Elop rule after the executive who left Microsoft last month to become CEO of Nokia. Apparently people other than me raised eyebrows and a bunch of other body parts about Microsoft’s having paid former Microsoft Business Division president $6.5 million for his house, a number that includes a $1.4 million tax gross up. Elop, who was with Microsoft for two years, had a deal under which the company agreed to pay the difference between what he paid for the house and the appraised value, which was appraised after property values fell dramatically.