[dramatic musical flourish] succeeding steve ballmer in 2014, satya nadella is the current ceo of whatunded in 1975? >> okay. since i'm a tech guy, i'm thinking this is a trick question. >> [laughs] >> succeeding steve ballmer in 2014, satya nadella-- brilliant guy--is the current ceo of what tech giant founded in 1975? well, steve ballmer retired to buy a basketball team. i wish i could do that. mark cuban has a basketball team. steve has a basketball team. >> when are you getting yours? >> [sighs] when i win more money today and i give it to the charity and the lord gives me back more. >> okay, i see. >> um, it's not apple. it's not twitter. it's microsoft. final answer: c, microsoft. >> now we're up to $10,000. >> yes! >> halfway there! >> [laughing] >> all right, robert.

but satya nadella is making a lot of good moves. i worry, just like i worry about dropbox. so the suite of products will include something that competes with a slack in the workplace. >> yes >> a concern, at least, that you would raise. >> it's the opening of the nfl these days when you see them using a microsoft program on the sideline, tom brady, you're not going to say, oh, who made them do that? you're going to say, hey, it works okay what happened? do you have something new? >> no, we have the ceo on "squawk box" this morning. he said a lot about the long term let's listen in to at least one of the things he had to say in defending the company. >> going to make decisions over the long run this is a very strong quarter. whether it's up or down, yesterday up 8% in the regular market, down after it's not going to make a whole bunch of difference to the long-term holders or to the business this is a strong quarter 145 million revenue versus 92 million the year prior we're happy with that. >> also went on to say they have a strong cash position of close to $800 million. if

. >> microsoft the story of microsoft do you think it's appreciated enough what satya nadella has beene to do at microsoft, richest company in the world i think now by market cap. >> the entrepreneurs i talked to are highly aware of what he's done and achieved and the contrast that he's brought to the company and how doubling down on the enterprise has really unlocked so much wealth and value. >> you own the stock. >> don't let me underestimate it well i think the cultural change, the optimism to be at microsoft today. their ability to recruit engineers, their ability to take on big challenges, the focus they have as a business. what they're doing in the cloud. so we're investors across the date in tableau and mongo and we see azure is more than holding its own against aws and as companies move to the cloud, take a company take i like united airline, they don't want to be hard wired single threaded to aws the two names in the discussion i know you had the ceo of google cloud, unfortunately, they're not really in the discussion we see a hybrid cloud conversation that includes aws nation

marc benioff made that you are to believe there is an axis and ally group and he's alive with satya nadellacrosoft there is no doubt, these guys are not friends, they may be friends for -- >> stock down, disappointed a lot of investors this year so far. >> the fact is it did have a great last year, so -- you know what, david, we have to go >> we do we have to go. we have an open bell, of course. one more look, by the way, at futures as we get ready for the opening bell, nine minutes from now. more from post nine coming your wa y. ♪ you spend days researching bed sheets. and weeks picking a dog bed. so why would you settle for just any bank? just do what you do with everything else. ask the internet! ask your friends. ask your co workers. we're pretty sure they'll send you over to us. because we're not just a bank. we're an ally. ally, this is pamela how can i help you? at verizon, we're building the most powerful 5g experience for america. that's why the nfl chose verizon. because they need the massive capacity of 5g with ultra wideband, so more screaming, streaming, posting fans... can exp