i know that doesn't fit the trend that ballmer screwed up. i just think this was a major, major departure. it's a good one and the new iteration could be better. the fact that it is not loved by some also should be contrasted according to all things enses digital, that's not that bad. >> no, this is being presented in the press and the ft has had the lead story as a new coke disaster. yeah, that's a fun thing to say, but it doesn't seem to jive with the facts. >> you mentioned 100 million licenses in six months and not any better than the previous iteration had, and bet the company moment. >> you bet the company money and the former ceo of intel, and there will be a new intel product that comes out later in the year, the ultra which has very good battery life that could job with this. i'm trying to figure out why microsoft -- >> you know why microsoft has been going up and we've been sitting here talking about the fact that it doesn't have that much to do with pcs and you said that many times and that was the case made from value act which is

steve ballmer described to me in the fall right before the windows 8 launch. so really with one experience for the user, you can span a device that looks like a desktop. you can work on a device that looks like a laptop, and the keyboard detaches or you can work on a device that never came with the keyboard at all and just looks like a tablet. >> some users do want slightly different approaches and one more like a traditional pc and another one like a tablet and we'll see if the updates make pc users and pc buyers warm up to windows 8. it might slow the pc's decline. >> john, thanks so much, reporting from silicon valley. you know, when steve ballmer introduced this product in october, he said this is a bet the company moment and now to have to rethink it -- >> yeah, this is a big thing. >> the company that has had a hard time staying out of the own way in many ways. >> when we come back, if online sales are taxed, would it change the way you shop? we have both sides of this very hot debate that's dividing congress and it could affect you and your money. first

cheryl: steve ballmer? >> right. you know, so, yeah. so there's that.erprise business, but it's really where they're struggling to catch up like a lot of tech companies, this permanent transition the world is making from pc to mobile, tablets and smartphones. you don't need me to repeat the numbers. cheryl: do you think microsoft's having an identity crisis? because service was this departure, and then you had the new windows operating system, and i guess blockbuster doesn't come to mind. >> it doesn't. an understatement. yeah, the tablet, the tablet notebook hybrid is in itself an identity crisis, and i think apple and tim cook himself has been quite voc vocal on that, that you're not going to put a toaster and a microwave together and sell it as a product. so i think they really need to think about how to -- and, of course, again, it's a real problem. how are you going to, like every other company is trying to rival apple with the ipad, and samsung is doing it with the iphone, but, you know, microsoft really needs to go back to the drawing board. cher

fellow tech giant, microsoft steve ballmer takes second.is amazon's jeff bezos. survey defines trust as showing honesty, character and exceptional talent. liz: but you may disagree with this. so we asked you on your facebook page which ceo do you trust the most? sawyer wrote to say who would trust a ceo? they only care about money. they employ people, sawyer. come on. veto -- vito said, the ceo of johnson & johnson. jodi arias guilty, first-degree murder. interesting development. liz: thrill will be another one. thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. busy numbers day. foxbusiness.com has all updates on green mountain coffee, groupon, tesla and. david: after-hours the buyers are still coming in after-hours. to pick up tesla. 14.2%. we're looking groupon right here. put tesla if you can. this is a huge jump. we heard our analyst selling a little shorter than what traders after-hours are saying. they are getting so much, $68 million from trading credit emissions out in california to those who are more polluting that is too much money he says

just in to the crown for new to rome remember the mountain is by boyle was injured at the boston ballmerreatment. the war is just treated this pitcher showing the boy a at the game tonight. he also did a lot of interviews. aaron is a big sports fan. this is justin to our newsroom. san the guys who're up this kid has quite a lot happened in the last few weeks. he was a victim of the boston marathon bomber. aaron her and hoping for a warriors win tonight. >> when we come back. high schoolers look forward to two things: prom and yearbook photos. but one teenager in north carolina is upset that her yearbook photo was banned. find out why as the kron-4 news at six continues. you kids should count yourselves lucky. we didn't have u-verse back in my day. you couldn't just... guys... there you are. you know you couldn't just pause a show in one room, then... where was i... you couldn't pause a show in one room then start playing it in another. and...i'm talking to myself... [ male announcer ] call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. for 2

. >> ballmer, the ceo of microsoft and others.e would be a perfect owner be 2 mayor of sacramento put together a group. >> rose: kevin johnson. >> kevin johnson. >> and that is at the front of the same sports illustrated article. and he put together a group and put together an arena package and right now, we had a committee that voted our relocation committee subject to them putting together a report and then having the board vote on it, that the team should not be moved, a the recommendation it should stay in sacramento tha different from running any other corporation? >> i he it is. i think it is a public trust of sorts, and that is how communities see their team and hwe are seeing that in sacrameno right now i think some people are surprised at the preliminary decision, the relocation committee has made but they say look at seattle there are more corporate headquarters and there is a potential to generate more revenue shouldn't you move the fran choo i see to the market with more revenue and our response is not necessarily, tha

how much are ballmer and chris hansen, seattle native, offering?5 mill n $625 million, plus they're willing to throw in a record $115 million in relocation fees paid to the other owners. the sacramento isn't taking -- they have nothing else going on there. the mayor is a former nba all-star. he's enlisted the aid of a silicon titan who already has a stake in the warriors, offering $ 304. the money being thrown around shocks even the most ardent fans. >> stunned. it's astronomical to see what's happening. and just a couple months ago, i think people would have been shocked at the value of $450 million. and now we're looking at a $625 million valuation for the franchise. >> then there are the stadium wars. the kings currently play in the aptly named sleep train arena, the maloofs have tried for years to get a new stadium. sacramento is now promising one, paid for mostly by taxpayers, and some taxpayers are suing. in seattle, they've approved plans for a new sonics arena, mostly paid for by the team. here's the deal. if the league votes down the seatt

. >> get to ballmer. >> get crops. >> at 11:00 o'clock.n elementary school up there at a firm called he will cot dredges and then at a community senator and like you, peter t there are a couple of holes in the schedule here today so i know the president's got at food stop somewhere. he has a food stop. i bet you he is going to the lexington market. he better go lexington market, to failey's best crab indicates in the world. >> get yourself a muscrat? >> you can buy some muscrat there. i have seen it for sale. we will be right back. recess taken [ music ] >> bill: what do you say. good morning, everybody. happy friday may 17th. good to see you today. this is the full court press, and we arecosming to you live from our nation's capitol. our studio right here with the news of the day and your chance to join the conversation. we love hearing from you and hear all of these voices from every different part of the country. 866-55-press is how you join the conversation. >> that's our toll-free line. 866-557-7377. on twitter just easy @bpshow. and

the structure because of the bombers side we already know we will hit with the long-range strike ballmer that we focus on conventional capabilities but also nuclear capable so we have a way for verge on the bomber side but it is independent in some respect from the nuclear decisions that are still pending. >> if asked to have ways in the budget program to do more cheaply? >> yes. there are ways to address different aspects ptah of the nuclear enterprise and we have lots of options and there are many programs but to offer the broader context , what the folks are focused on the size of the nuclear enterprise between the sea bass and land-based forces call for they said of the triad need modernization of some fashion some there is the overhanging requirement to upgrade and modernize its command-and-control that goes with it. >> are either of you at the point* where you are growing concerned that a competitor may misjudge our ability to respond should we need to because of sequestration kets? >> a rougher it is very important as a challenging the fiscal issue concerning the nation and our mi

. >> we keep waiting for ballmer to announce his transition. >> there isn't any succession plan there. >> it points to big secession stories. ibm and apple, there's been transitions with varying success. >> i don't buy the stock of a brand new ceo for a year because they don't know how to manage the stock. gore s goresky is the exception knowing they give him a good stock and i wouldn't say repudiate, but said, listen, there's value here and we have to make changes. he distanced himself from the previous ceo. sometimes you need to do that. that's what the avon ceo is doing. she is distancing, sherry mccoy. >> i would imagine that would be a good strategy, go in the opposite direction of poor execution. >> and people think, succession, come on! >> do they have to move in the direction of otellini. >> the company is more broad. microsoft has moved to entertainment and device and talking about today in a piece what these new businesses means. the diversion in security shows a mistake. no one likes to admit a mistake once you've done something. if i see this new ceo say this is our direct

long ago into this theme we have talked about on the negative side perhaps when it comes to steve ballmer in terms of really gathering together potential successors. but on barnes & noble, interesting to remember -- of course microsoft is in at 16.8% stake in nook. paid $300 million for it. er that averaging down if they do actually buy for a billion. as i recall, there was a proposal to buy the retail operations. not sure where that is. that was some time ago. whether that's progressing or not. but a lot of activity in m and a. liberty, john malone. >> david was skeptical about a term in europe. john malone i think after looking at news corp. last night, joh called the bottom in europe, david. that's where he he's going to get his revenues. it was another brilliant move by this man who only speaks to you and i think no one else. >> well, you've been calling that bottom, too. he sees opportunities. he is acting. i think when it comes to those kinds -- the willingness on the part of companies to do big m and a it does in this environment seem to have to be the big guns. it is warren buffet

new xbox coming out and steve ballmer has changed the way people look at that company. it's maybe late in the game for him, but i'd like the fact that the company has, to me, been proving the doubters wrong. it's not just windows 8 which i don't care about. i like the idea that there aresome the sum of the parts. do you think it's an execution story rather than some sort of stealth rally in tech and some sort of stealth rally into more aggressive, leadership-type names. we're seeing it in xilinx and the benefits of the national semi merger. we're seeing it in an adobe where acrobat has come back to the fore. >> bmc today. >> this is an undervalued sector. it is not the sector that warren buffett likes because he likes understandable things. he moved the whole consumer products group. i think general mills is at 51 in part, but i see value in tech even if warren buffett has not and the difficult thing is if you want to sell in may, there are other people who are hoping you'll sell in may if you want to get that performance. >> i've been hearing from a number of cash flow

the company steve ballmer, but he may have something going. >> okay. i'll leave it out there.that in. >> he may have something going. >> he may have looked at this target. >> can't keep a cfo to save his life, but he may have something going. >> hey, i'm just watching the moment up of a stock going from ten times earnings to 13 times earnings in a straight line. they don't have a multiple expansion like this except there are coiled springs out there, david because if you have a good second half in tech and you see a turn in europe and even urban outfitters said they have a turn in europe and remember, emerson saying europe has bottomed out. >> david, i'm going to give you one will that will knock your socks off. >> general electric. >> never going to happen. it's at the top of its range. >> i'll make you a gentleman's wager there because i think that stock can break out there. >> if how many years has it been? how many years has it been? >> rip van winkle. >> go back further. >> give me a chart that goes back further than that. you want to talk about disappointment and heartbr