and satya at microsoft. one example, takings the microsoft office suite of apps and putting them on ios, small thing not going to move the needle for microsoft profits, but it says a huge statement to the technology community that microsoft is now platform agnostic and embracing mobile. the one thing speaks volumes to the tech community. that's the beginning of a turnaround i think. that's the hopefully the tip of the spear for microsoft over the next couple years. >> absolutely. >> brepts, one final question, i'm wondering, we talk about microsoft being cool. it wants to reinvigorate some of its products and one of the strategies is giving them away for free. that's pretty much where the revenue weakness is going to come from the lost line items they won't be getting paid for. do you think that will eventually pay off as a strategy? >> i do. i think it's stimulating more unit sales with windows and i think where microsoft makes up for this, is the addition of these subscriptions, right. the os is only one p

how much does gaming mean to microsoft? josh takes a look. >> the experiences from productivity to gaming how spartan and browser comes together how xbox live comes together -- >> reporter: microsoft's ceo is passionate about cloud services and mobile technology. but he's also very excited about video games. that commitment is easy to understand given the size of this industry. which is now worth some $100 billion, according to analysts at gardner. so nodela is working hard to win over fans from microsoft. they slashed the price of the video game console from $500 to $350 which had a big impact for both november and december. microsoft says that the xbox 1 was the best-selling console in the u.s. the question for microsoft investors, though is how exactly a video game console fits into the broader strategy of what's called a cloud and mobile first world. nodela is still trying to figure that out. >> what i think is going on right now is a reassessment of exactly where xbox fits strategically. they just can't pull a plug on

microsoft has no choice. if they are successful candidate unite all of their products in the cloud, which is different? can we compete with gmail with products that are free from the competition? when you look at the apple ecosystem, soon they will have a watch. they talk so brilliantly together. if i were microsoft i would change the name of the company to xbox. do you really want microsoft? it shows how quickly the industry moves. >> they are right under microsoft. we did not get to talk about this yesterday, the headlines that microsoft makes on other products like thehol holo lens. >> i think they want to show that they are on a cutting edge of innovation. facebook got so much attention for their acquisition of oculist. they have success with things that don't interface with the average consumer or business user. the problem is they are facing a new kind of competition. they are not competing with the old world of technology. they are competing with amazon. they are happy to cut prices many times on a mon

right now we're checking out microsoft.own 3% despite earnings coming in in line with expectations. is the bloom coming off the rose for the ceo >> i don't think so. the quarter was okay. not good enough, obviously, to continue moving it higher on the evaluations they are trading at. if you parse through, operating margins 29.4%. the street was looking for 28.5%. they continue to get into better margin businesses. i don't think this stock will trade down the october 15th low which is 42 3/4. >> can you take anything else out? >> microsoft is its own thing. the risk/reward here is okay. it's okay. it's a great company. it's not a crazy evaluation. i don't think there's a ton of upside. i think there's not a lot of down side either. >> tim, we were talking about that run up it had, 30% in the last 12 months. >> you get to a place -- everyone has said that. there's no value in the stock. stock trades 20% roughly premium to where it's traded in the last ten years. relative to its peers and a lot of people say look at the peers

we saw this from microsoft.ow that i mean there is the oculus, sony's product, there is a setup called magic leap somewhere in florida with nearly $600 million, most of that from google. everybody wants in on this. >> the thing about oculus, it already has the core audience in gamers that will snap up any product that they put out that is worth something to them. does microsoft have an audience for this? do you think customer behavior is there some. >> consider mine craft. i don't know if you have heard of it. most 8-year-olds have heard of it and microsoft owns it. one big bet that microsoft is making here, is that if this is the only place where you can play hollow graphic mine craft every 8-year-old will ask their parents for this game. >> productivity and platforms where is jats nadella has staked this company. this dangling thing off to the side is gaming. mentions it, says it's not core, but now we have this holo lens. is this about productivity and platforms or about gaming or are they trying do a bit of

that microsoft had with windows 7. windows 8 launch, microsoft lost quite a bit of credibility in the consumer market. just by the way it was launched, even though, you know, quite honestly the operating system was quite good. it was just the -- there was a jarring experience going from the modern start menu to, you know, the old way of navigating windows. it's -- they got some work to do to catch up, i think. >> that was rough for me going back and forth between one interface and the other. another feature that we're expecting to see here is the spartan browser. how big a deal is that? do you think microsoft can reassert itself in the browser wars when chrome has momentum, firefox is trying to do new things. can microsoft's new browser get some traction? >> it's unfortunate that people didn't really have the opportunity or give themselves the opportunity to try internet explorer touch because, you know, if you look at windows 8, the best experience in windows 8 for touch was the browser. they actually had an amazing b

look at a l going after microsoft. apple owns its whole ecosystem. >> so they're going to sell 2 million more iphones in china than they did in the u.s. this past quarter. what we're seeing happen is you have the iphone, apple and then 1.5% of global market share. and you see samsung losing about 8% of market share. if in the u.s., we have apple and samsung. in china, you have apple and jao me. that could be devastating for samsu samsung. >> why don't you show it off now? >> i managed to get ahold of a phone. i said i wanted one. somebody brought it back for me some china. what's amazing about it, they have all of their own apps. they have their own app store. they have their own music. we're going into weather now. they have their own music store as well. this is the higher end one they have right now. they just dropped the price a little bit as they enter india soon. >> and is it the closest thing to a chinese apple? >> it's much easier to use than an android phone in my limited experience. our producer said, wow, it

is microsoft cool again?oft has become part and parcel of many conversations with its software hardware cloud. microsoft has been talked about in this conversation, which did not have many years ago. the hololens -- let's not hold our breath, but it is it that it is an interesting product. the fact that they are in the mix is interesting. >> it is exciting that they have some of their groove back, but some are looking at the consumer hardware division, saying that you have to sell the xbox, what is the point of making a headset? >> absolutely. microsoft is making a large pivot from traditional software to cloud-based software, and you want to see continued momentum in that space. but at the end of the day, microsoft's bread is still buttered on windows. >> i did not see a single service. when are they going to get rid of this stuff? >> the surface is a great product very badly priced. for the past two years -- >> how much is the surface? >> the surface runs well into $1200. it is too much to ask for from a pr

microsoft also showed of windows 10. next operating system set the market later this year that will offer four free to existing microsoft users. >> reporter: 8 looks pretty clean like a blend of windows 7 and windows eight it looks like it takes more than set will offer a window 7 which is good windows eight has not been well received. with this new operating system microsoft is getting rid of internet explorer or ide as you might know it for their new web browser they called spartan. microsoft says will be faster and easier to use. >> pam: the bay area has seen nearly a lot of flu deaths in the area. kron 4 felicia reid has spoke with an official answer not stating why officials still urging the public to get flu shots. >>: the single best way to protect yourself through influenza is to get a vaccine. >> reporter: 4 people are dead from the flow and sam francisco, sonoma and san mateo counties all confirmed this week. flu deaths in people under the age of 65 are reported to the state. >> reporter: many people that got t

microsoft did kick off the biggest week of the year for u.s. earnings with pfizer procter & gamble and apple all reporting today. the big tech news keeps coming on wednesday with facebook out after the bell but premarket we also hear from boeing and fiat chrysler. on thursday we have alibaba, conoco phillips and ford all before the open. after the bell google and amazon take a turn in the tech spotlight. finally we hear from chevron, mastercard xerox and mattel. we'll be busy this week. >> absolutely. all eyes will be on apple and a story we're learning about from reuters, router is reporting that the company's taiwan based supplier plans to shrink it's work force due to slowing sales growth. an assistant to the group's chairman said a dramatic increase in labor costs was driving the move. an interesting development there. >> they had issues so this is probably some continuation of paying their workers more but i wanted to bring up facts about apple because a colleague sent this to me and they're mind blowing. revenues estimated to be at about

what's cool about microsoft, you could go and they would let you be a product tester.ot of people in high school would go to microsoft, and they would give you a free mouse. >> you met your cofounders in middle school. >> dylan smith, the first cofounder of box, has been our chief financial officer. we played trumpet together in middle school. neither of us were any good at that. in middle school and high school, i did things on the internet was josh, and later in high school is some kids. >> tell me have box began. >> 10 years ago, not a lot of innovation was happening. it was hard to do basic things. share files, access data from anywhere, collaborate and work with other people. i was in college at the time, and the idea was, what if you could have hard drives in the cloud where you put all your files, then access it from the internet and any device you want to work from? >> tell me about the early days, fondest memories. >> mark cuban was an angel investor in box. that was done by a cold e-mail we sent to mark in 2005. he sent us a $350,000 check to people he never

microsoft unveiling its latest move into mobile.cquisition last month of an email app maker here in san francisco called accompli made the news. they announce plans to give office away on rival operating systems but what can they do to improve the crummy experience of email. they've got a plan. i talked to current microsoft outlook general manager javier saltero. >> we're trying to make mobile email more than about just reading mess -- messages in line for coffee. it's an incredibly medium we've used for decades, but when we started -- accompli the company that microsoft acquired that i was c.e.o. of, we said, here's this extraordinarily important communications tool, it's underutilized on the device everybody has in their pocket. >> they probably have i.o.s. or an droid. i like the microsoft operating system but it hasn't taken off. how do you expect people to use this new app on those systems? >> we said look let's think about situations, people -- the hard thing about building great email products is that everybody uses email a l

the biggest laggard is microsoft.hat company getting four downgrades today including a rare sell rating from citigroup and analyst walter pritchard is slashing his price target to $38. rick sherland is saying the honeymoon period is over for that company. what i want to know from you pete, whether you agree? >> well, i think the honeymoon is probably over and now they have to tart producing better and there was a few tailwinds in the past they were able to ride along, scott, and now suddenly those are starting to leave them and they have to produce in a better way. the costs were too expensive in the past quarter and that's really what started a cost microsoft unfortunately when you look at the margins, look at their revenue they beat but what did it cost to get to that? that was part of the problem. i don't think there's an earnings issue going on right now with microsoft. they're in a transition. it's all about snd aatya nadelld his execution. now about show me. he's done a great job to now. now he has to be able to

thanks in large part to microsoft they're doing much better. >> on the heels of microsoft earnings reportant apple set to report after the bell tomorrow. we'll be right there for you. the stock is up more than 45% over the past year but is it still a buy, or perhaps a sell or a hold? straight ahead of the numbers our panel weighsany, the high-end, we're talking high-end, look at this, rolls-royce, the luxury car market making a comeback. rolls-royce posting another record-setting year. we'll talk to the north american ceo. would you like to drive a rolls royce. he will tell you how you can. liz: wonder how you do in this blizzard? will google disrupt the mobile industry. a new offer could bring you a consumer way better prices and more flexibility which is what we all crave, right? more on that next. david: look outside. ♪ startup-ny. it's working for new york state. already 55 companies are investing over $98 million dollars, and creating over 2100 jobs. from long island to all across upstate new york, more businesses are coming to new york. they are paying no property taxes, no corporat

microsoft is a great company, lot of interests they're trying to serve.ox is 100% focused on building this cloud platform for sharing enterprise content and what we need to do is continue to invest in innovation and continuing to build out the platform and woring with our partners to do that. >> in a single word what is the biggest priority for box now when they wake up tomorrow? >> execution. >> we'll leave it there. josh stein, congratulations on a successful debut, up some 63% in early trading for box. let's get more on box and the tech sector. simon hobbs on the floor with a special guest. >> yes, joining me here is jay walker, founder of priceline and prolific owner of patents it has to be said. we'll talk about patents in a moment. what do you make of drop? >> i think box, talking about the ipo today? >> yes. >> the whole field of cloud computing is only understood within one area and it's about to be understood within a much bigger area, simon. all of health and medicine is coming to the cloud. as we wear all those sensors, those apple watches, all

or for salesforce to win. >> what about microsoft?ompany that you grew up with. >> there are specific product areas where we could potentially lose or be harmed by some of this transition, but there is an entire company at the macro level that does not necessarily have to lose. >> so companies like microsoft, google, amazon are dropping the price of cloud storage. how much of a threat is that? to box. >> we love that. the same unit of storage is now a 40th of a price and it was 10 years ago. on the supply side of our business. the cheaper storage gets, the more data we can store for a customer and the more we can deliver unique experiences around the content. >> you took on $150 million in funding from tpg. the company is now valued at $2.4 billion. why do you need that money? -- why did you take that money? >> as you may have seen, we filed to go public in march of this year. basically, a week after we filed, there was a bit of a market correction in the tech stock space. so you saw a bit of volatility in a lot of high-growth technol

microsoft -- we will see you soon. stuart: down 9%. do on microsoft in case you are a new viewer and you do not know that. the streak is over. gas prices went up overnight. just a half cent. $2.03 is your national average for regular. the collapsing gas prices. it was fun while it lasted. prices dropped. savings of $1.31 per gallon. that is a lot back in your wallet. a screeching halt. look at what you. cheryl: i think that this is temporary. stuart: i will not suggest that we bounce back up for gas. put oil back up again. 44.81 earlier. who is saying that? let's check. >> as long as you see that opec is not willing to see this. talking a little bit about the main idea of trying to disrupt u.s. production here in the united states. it will take a little bit of time. we have seen production growth over the past couple of weeks. primarily brought on by the previous. it will take time until we see the cutback in drilling here. i think saudi arabia will wait until at least june. determining whether or not they will cut production and price

what's cool about microsoft, you could go and they would let you be a product tester.f people in high school would go to microsoft, and they would give you a free mouse. >> you met your cofounders in middle school. >> dylan smith, the first cofounder of box, has been our chief financial officer. we played trumpet together in middle school. neither of us were any good at that. in middle school and high school, i did things on the internet was josh, and later in high school is some kids. >> tell me have box began. >> 10 years ago, not a lot of innovation was happening. it was hard to do basic things. share files, access data from anywhere, collaborate and work with other people. i was in college at the time and the idea was, what if you could have hard drives in the cloud where you put all your files, then access it from the internet and any device you want to work from? >> tell me about the early days, fondest memories. >> mark cuban was an angel investor in box. that was done by a cold e-mail we sent to mark in 2005. he sent us a $350,000 check to people he never met.

microsoft down 8.5% is a reset. when you look at a longer term chart, it's still not too bad. >> but they didn't -- right, but this is level it's got to hold or it becomes head and shoulders pattern. >> hewlett-packard down 4.5% oracle down 3%. >> that's on top of seagate, sandisk, zylink. build a good argument on that front. >> i think they'll be -- i'm going to give in to david. it's a horrible david i'm going to got crown royal plaza pa viv pavilion double degree, say it's so bad. i'm trying to find opportunity. that's wait to handle the market for the last seven years, look at opportunity. but it's not the first day. it's not the first day. >> right. that has been the blueprint. >> what am i supposed to do? >> put in the german ten year. pay them. >> there you go. that's -- how about -- how much -- you know what? if you open an account at first horizon, do they give you $151? >> currency trading. maybe an accountant at fxcm 50-1. >> a lot of the guys discovered there is such a thing as currency trading. why didn

david: microsoft software. >> microsoft help health which works with microsoft band.ou brought up sleep. it is one of the these most popular uses of our band. it give you a lot of great insights. my son came home from college and put a band on him, let him sleep. he was wondering why he was sleeping. david: over there and wearing it now. brought the whole family. cheryl: thanks for outing me on national television. >> wakes up 14 times a night didn't know it. now we need to take him in to make sure he is doing all right. cheryl: for women. calories, that is the big thing for us. measures calories. how many we burn per day. >> based on heart rate monitoring you get a real accurate count. david: come on in. come on in. this is your son straight from seattle, washington. so you didn't know that you were sleeping poorly. >> i was tired a lot. when i put the band on, all of sudden i could see that, waking up 16, 17, times a day. david: how did their change your behavior. >> something i need to check with doctors. maybe i have sleep apnea something that i can fit and band h

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. >> computer giant microsoft will today launch a new operating system called windows 10. in the desktop world microsoft remains dominant, nearly 90% of the world desktops running windows operating systems. remarkably, one in five of these, 18%, in other words of all desk tops run windows x.p., even though it's now 14 years old. compare that to on that pell's o.s.x. on less than 10% of desk tops. it is expected to run across desktop p.c.'s, microsoft tablets and smart phones. this will work on all devices making life simpler for users. microsoft hopes the new system wins over the all important business market. >> a technology journalist joins us. tell us more about this operating system and what microsoft needs to achieve with it to stay relevant and competitive. >> until now microsoft has had different operating systems on phones tablets and desk tops. as a result, it hasn't been able to use its dominance of the desktop to push into mobile, quite the opposite, it's been holding it back. they want windows 10 to unify everything to have the same experience from a desktop to

this is the microsoft cloud. liz: welcome back.re overseas have had a cost of headlines to worry about, everything from terrorist threats to foreign monetary policy which may be why mid cap names are outperforming the s&p so far year. will this trend continue? this is really going to heat up your portfolio. we bring in the experts, neil hennessey, hennessey funds portfolio manage and chip by january coe. good to see you both. jim, what's your market theory right now? the markets today are relatively flat, but those headlines gyrate all kinds of exciting investments. it looks like plain old mid caps are looking good? >> yeah, based on what you said at the top. large cap companies, by the measurements -- 45%, 45% of their revenues come from overseas -- we have a surging dollar right now, and that's not good for them. and a lot of the large cap companies, look no further than caterpillar, have been struggling because they're selling into markets with weakening currencies, so they keep translating back ever less sums of money. mid cap

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did you see it in microsoft?> we saw it in microsoft, we are going to see at an apple and over the course of the next four months. fourth quarter fx. for a handful of tech companies particularly in europe, companies like cisco. nearly a third of sales are in europe. they are going to see some serious fx headwinds. we could be in for some negative surprises. >> a wildcard. we dearly appreciate your getting out of bed at 3 a.m. to join us. >> we will look away from the storm. some storm data coming in from massachusetts. plymouth rock gets buried. richard haas will join us with a consult on foreign relations. his important essay on saudi arabia. from a stormy new york city good morning. stay with us, bloomberg "surveillance." ♪ >> good morning. bloomberg "surveillance," i'm tom keene. the markets will be open today. even though much of new york city is close. a morning must read. >> this comes from klaus, he advises companies, telecom companies on how to deal with wi-fi. he wrote that they are going to offer a chea

in the desktop world, microsoft remains dominant.kably window's xp 14 years on still runs on 80% of all desktops. compare that to apple's osx, it ones on 4% of desktops. window's 10 is expected to work across a wide range of devices. this means the same software will work on many devices making people's lives simpler. that's the aim. >> until now, microsoft has had different operating systems on its phones tablets desktops and so on and hasn't been able to use its dominance on the desktop to push into mobile. so they want window's ten to unify everything so you can have the same experience run what looks like the same software and buy stuff from the same app store, so people will want to use the mobile because they are using the desktop. it looks a lot nicer. a lot of the feedback that people gave them on window's 8 which only has about -- been placed on about 15% of desktops so it hasn't done well at all. they still have a huge problem in that they are not selling into mobile people go to am for the high end, android for the cheap e

microsoft is down. is down. >> the multinationals are in trouble this morning. >> this is a big story today. >> it is. >>> when we come back we're going to talk more about it. we have the ceo of caterpillar who will be sounding off on earnings. much more to come. stick around. "squawk box" will be right back. ting who will win the big race between the tortoise and the hare. what do you think andrew? rabbits are faster. it's not a rabbit, it's a ha \ maybe figure that out before debating the best wide reciever of all time. wait, are you odell beckham jr.? >>> live from new york where business never sleeps, this is "squawk box." >> welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc first in business worldwide. i'm joe kernen along with becky quick and andrew ross sorkin. breaking news this morning. that is u.s. equity futures are pointing to a sharply lower open after what has been a crappy start to 2015 already. so we're down almost 200. people talking about the four horsemen. there's more than four actually. thi

the next step of microsoft's mobile strategy.k at that next. ♪ >> i'm cory johnson and this is "bloomberg west." microsoft is revealing its next move into mobile. it released an e-mail app maker. it is the center of a strategy for the phone and tablet. they have plans to give office away on rival operating systems but what will they do to improve the experience? if you picture a full inbox, you can imagine how bad this could be. i talked with the general manager. >> we are trying to make mobile e-mail more about -- more than just about reading messages while you were drinking coffee. this incredible medium we have been using for multiple decades and we have had mobile e-mail for white a while a different devices. when we started the company that microsoft acquired i was ceo of, we looked at it and we said this is an extraordinarily important communications tool and it is underutilized. >> so, it has not taken off like the others. how do you expect people to use this new app? >> the way we approached it was look. think about situa

microsoft focused on zero day. it had to examine, figure out the vulnerabilities and release patches. >> host: what was the effect? >> guest: it had two different payloads. it has the carrier and then the payload. stuxnet had to payloads, one designed to close valves on centrifuges in order to trap gas. when that occurred the gas would condense and become more of a solidified mass which would throw the centrifuges off balance, possibly making them crash and also deteriorate the rotors inside the centrifuges. the result of that would be destroyed centrifuges and wasted gas. and iran did not have a lot of gas to work with. the 2nd weapon was designed to speed up the centrifuges and this would have been a more direct attack. the 2nd payload was speeding up centrifuges reducing the speed, and you would get deteriorated uranium. the irani is would have expected a certain grade and would have had a much lower grade of enrichment than they expected. >> host: this was in 2010. has iran recovered? >> guest: remarkably, it d

microsoft has a bad vintage. nasty, whining about execution in china, when i hear it about china it better not be about earnings. and the whining, what the heck went wrong in china and japan. you know what? that is your job, microsoft. i don't want a darn crisis about sales in china. hey, by the way, a lot of whining going on at procter & gamble. don't know how it could have been worse. don't go near this bottle. i want you to -- it's spoiled. just return it. vinegar, all right here we go the biggest whiner of them all? caterpillar. yeah i have never heard anybody campaign as aggressive as the ceo to get on the "mad money" wall. this man is on a mission to get there. i may have to grant him his wish. he stumbled pretty much everywhere overseas complaining about weak markets for equipment use to mine iron ore, copper you name it. the biggest one? how the oil and gas industry has led to decline. i heard him whine about the impact on the oil impact on his company's business than the oil service great. when you sell

microsoft announcing windows 10. i thought it was interesting because the direction they need to go with their products they are going. i think it's going to be symptom specific. >> i want to add one thing. the top ten holding make up 50% of the weight of the qqq. equal to $2.5 trillion. that's more than the rest of the 90 in that index. a lot of those stocks have been doing a lot of the heavy lifting for the last year or sochl it's really going to be important what sort of guidance we get out of these stocks going forward and that will be the trend for q 1. >> you've got a trade specifically on ba ba. >> i want to look at aly baba, it's not the largest, the 4th largest. here is a company pretty new to us, publicly tradedentity, public in september. did report one quarter in early november. for the most part results were good. there were negatives. margin pressure, a company growing fast. on singles day in december $9.3 in gross merchandise sales hear. the quarter they are going to report is probably going to be a bi

we have much lower to go on microsoft. charles: caterpillar buying 40 billion dollars' worth of their stock from 2016. they'll be bhie buying their own stock. the commercial side, they're making the transition. everyone knows eventually, pcs they won't be dead. there's too much hype about the pcs being dead. i think microsoft made a quiet successful transition to the cloud. it was disappointed last night, the street. >> yeah. and what happened last week, windows ten was being given away for free in terms of upgrades. we knew there was a problem. in terms of the cloud and the commercial space, the pc being weak, even though they're not going away, it still hit everyone hard because the reality was there. and, look, it hit intel. hewlett-packard. across-the-board, it was this rawness to hearing this news. >> we're not talking about what happened in asia too. they're licensing revenue was down. $10.7 billion down from 10.9. it's almost as if they're consolidating in some ways in asia. it's not as strong as it once was. >> and

tale of two tech companies for microsoft and apple. microsoft reporting dispointing fourth quarter earnings. apple is gearing up for what analysts say could be epic report after the bell. is it going to be epic jack? >> it will be epic in terms of numbers. the stock is going to decline and the reason i say that that is what happened this time a year ago and this time two years ago. something happens twice, i look for it to happen a third time. >> we know it will be epic in terms what they have sold people will look for projection. >> i don't think they come up with something bigger than screen increase on iphone 6. this was the mother of all upgrade cycles. i think having a hard time -- >> about as epic as that blizzard you will talk about. melissa: yeah, i don't know. i think it will be more epic than the blizzard. >> troublemakers today. giving you all kinds of trouble. melissa: there you go. all right here is live look at the blizzard that was supposed to be epic. supposed to be the storm of the century except for much of the trista

they will offer for free to existing microsoft users.a blend of windows 7 and windows 8 it looks like it takes more from windows 7 which is good windows 8 has not been as well received. with this new operating system microsoft is getting rid of internet explorer or i-e as you might know it for their new web browser they call spartan. microsoft says it will be faster and easier to use and it feature cortana their built in speech assistant. it's like their version of siri you can ask it questions and get asnwers and have it do tasks for you like making dinner reservations. gabe slate kron 4 news >>vicki liviakis:in the ongoing argument over whether coffee is good for us. the latest study says, it might actually reduce your risk of the deadliest form of skin cancer. that's according to a study published this week in the journal of the national cancer institute. researchers examined food and cancer information from about half a million people. they found. those who drank more than four cups of coffee per day had a 20-percent lower risk of de

don't tell me you don't like microsoft. >> i like microsoft for a long time and i will for a long time hopes for microsoft. it will hit $60 in 2015. it has really no ceiling on it. big as it is, it and live and itself. is a great company once again. windows is moving away from it. the cloud they made 160% gain in cloud business last year. is on fire. don: you would rather own microsoft and ibm? >> equivalent dividend yield has much more upside. ibm is black and blue. there is no reason to own it. stuart: you build yourself out with your comments on microsoft. come back any time you like. i want to get to yemen. radical islam taking control of the country. this is a big story. they have overrun the presidential palace. the country's collapsing. remember yemen is one country where president obama has been very aggressive with drone strikes. are they effective? should we do some more of them since the country's collapsing? judge andrew napolitano is here. we are probably going to disagree. i say drone them and you say don't. judge napolitano: who will you drone? our enemies? there is a gr

this is the microsoft cloud.rtup-ny. it's working for new york state. already 55 companies are investing over $98 million dollars and creating over 2100 jobs. from long island to all across upstate new york, more businesses are coming to new york. they are paying no property taxes no corporate taxes no sales taxes. and with over 300 locations, and 3.7 million square feet available, there's a place that's right for your business. see if startup-ny can work for you. go to startup.ny.gov. six saudi arabia is morning the death as his new leader quickly takes the throng. dropping oil prices and rising terrorism. let's go to the panel with more. phil flynn is out in chicago. welcome, to the both of you. first to the action and oil. it has kind of hacked off today. >> there was a lot of concern that the policies may be changing. we will keep this. that was the first royal proclamation. that is why the markets are backing off. the market that soft rollup that leave. the euro is very weak. i think the markets are still ve

here's microsoft, cfo warning that should the u.s. dollar strengthen beyond these assumptions as it did this quarter, we would see additional negative impact to earnings revenue, and our balance sheet. the big question that everybody is asking, don't they hedge their overseas exposures? the answer is yes. corporates are active, in foreign he exchange but those currency hedges do not protect them from these large and somewhat surprising moves. this one has been as far as the dollar against nearly every single other currency according to historical standards. down the road the dollar's climb should help a bit. for instance, p & g does a lot of its manufacturing in germany. the costs come down when it comes to input costs, but probably won't upset the negative hit which they're seeing from selling a broad png. one of the names feeling it very acutely right now. back to you, guys. >> sarah, thank you. sflirchlg the strong dollar putting pressure on the fed to not raise interest rates maybe as fast as they might have otherwise. joining us

microsoft has fired another shot in the cloud war. they will work with revolution analytics for their clowns -- cloud offering. the terms of the deal were not disclosed. e-commerce has claimed another victim. skied mall has bitten the dust. skymall and its parent company filed for bankruptcy in phoenix. sky mall cited the competitive retail environment and the increase of mobile devices on planes. now erin levy rings the opening bell. this is the day as the company he founded in his usc dorm goes public. box raised 175 million dollars, above the evaluation it received in july. shares remain high in the first day of trading. despite a business model with marketing costs that are bigger than revenue. what is box and how does it work? let's check it out. let's unpack box. what is this leading cloud service? it helps businesses manage and collaborate on documents stored on the cloud. it has 32 million users, over 20 south 5000 -- over 275,000 organizations. 10 years ago the ceo dropped out of college to start box and has brought in fantas

this is the microsoft cloud.eight you to preview economic spending it helps to have the solid family life. but first let's have mobility because the mess we have not been mobile for decades we have one says say otherwise. in 1967 this is where the upper wealth was. the middle-class kid down because people were moving up steadily. all the time into the upper level. this began to change as the stock market crash with 9/11 but the most dramatic changes occurred over the past six years where we have seen it go sideways and look at that blueline. it has gone up dramatically but that has only happened over the last six years. the real key is married with children. those are the ones that have held onto the upper class status if you want to be part of the 1% have a solid household then do the right thing is. debt-free is another smart thing but if you start a business you may have to take a risk upward mobility as the miss america going back to 1% had x amount of wealth but the 1% in 70 is not the same as 1% today that

microsoft down by about a percent. texas instruments, one of the biggest analog semi makers. expectations a profit of 69 cents cents. earlier today dr horton a home builder, posted better than expected first quarter results on a 35% jump in new orders. we'll end with norfolk southern advancing on better than expected fourth quarter profits. that rail company up by 1% kelly, bill in today's trade. back over to you guys. >> great stuff, dom. thank you very much for now. let's size up this market with one of the most well-known investors today. >> vanguard's jack boblbogle joins us from valley forge, pennsylvania. how is the weather? that obviously is a fake background. are you snowing yet in valley forge? >> i'm in valley forge. it is snowing not too heavily yet. we're supposed to get a lot later and we don't change that illustration behind me. if the building is changed, we would change it but if the season change, we're a mutual company, we're trying to save money for our shareholders. >> keep the expenses low. that's