the board is preparing to name satya nadella as ceo. he has been running microsoft's enterprise and cloud business and has been an employee at microsoft since 1992. the board is also considering replacing bill gates as chairman, possibly with john thompson. he was the former ceo of symantec will stop this is according to people have been briefed on the process and how it has been going. bloomberg told vision did it catch up with him after the web conference in paris and ask him about the ceo search. >> the microsoft board is working on the process. steve ballmer is the ceo and i'm actively engaged in running the enterprise group. >> [inaudible] >> i said everything i'm going to say about that topic. >> we have jon erlichman from l.a. -- he helped to break this story. i will start with you. how close is the board to naming him and how did they come to this decision? >> we are pretty far along in this process and what a process it has been. this is something that began and we were notified last year in august that steve ulmer would be ste

spoke with satya nadella just last month in paris.isten to what he had to say about what he thinks is most exciting. microsoft is an exciting place to be right now. if you look at her oddly what we are doing with our devices and services, the launch of the surface two and xbox, what we're doing with cloud computing, it's an amazing spot to be in. having an impact across society at large, that is why it is exciting to be at microsoft. >> any clues as to what his strategy might be? what should his strategy be when he takes his post? there is he's talking a lot about other parts of the business. he's talking about client welding and the idea of hardware and software closer together and creating a differentiated customer experience. talking about cloud services and bringing a vision to the company that i think they need to be bold and they need to work very hard to try and create a new kind of solution that may be for lack of a better term, their religion in the past had not allowed them to do. he needs to think about his sort of general

>> satya knows microsoft, and easy person to work with. one of my cofounders here worked for him for a long time. i worked in a different area but we worked together in the commerce server days, working with independent software vendors. he istell you that focused on innovation and reigniting the passion for technology with customers. potentialere are opportunities everywhere for saidsoft, although as cory before, microsoft is still mixing the same callous. they have a lot of potential to go into different spaces like wearable devices. who is have someone is knowledgeable, they can attack those things much faster. >> you are one of the guys that said it will end up being nadella in the end, but is he the right guy? we heard yesterday, this is a safe bet. is a safe bet a good bet? >> it is a low margin debt. low chance of failing, perhaps a low chance of being an outlier as well. microsoft is a very insular culture. people have worked there for decades. it is a place where people stay and stake out their careers and lives for incremental ch

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one of the things you hear about satya nadella is that he is an insider. i think that is a little but overblown. if bill can move a little bit , that isshadow helpful. satya nadella needs to have some operating room to carve out his own identity. he is an incredibly intelligent and articulate person. when he is accomplished is notable in terms of running the enterprise business. that is been overshadowed by investors. -- it would be odd to have two former ceos on the board. i imagine ballmer will move on. >> thank you very much. >> come up, just two days more until the big game. we will talk to the president of stub hub about the changing super bowl ticket demand. >> we are working on the process. i am engaged in running our enterprise division. i have said everything i am going to say. ♪ >> you're watching in the loop live on bloomberg television. watched television event of the year is just about here. the super bowl, player salaries, ticket salaries, adam johnson takes you behind the most surprising numbers of super bowl xlviii. >> are you ready for som

satya nadella has been anointed.estion is the future of bill gates as chairman. .dam parker is with us michael wolff joins us. he is a yahoo board member who --. what is bill gates going to do? is he really with his foundation, or is he secretly running a day-to-day at microsoft? >> there have been two ceos. choosing a ceo if this is in fact true, an insider, a technologist who has been and thethe cloud technology infrastructure part of the company, the best technology companies are surrounded by the best technologists. a guy who is an incredible engineer could make a huge difference. >> the double barrel of nadella and john thompson gives you two different skill sets. >> it gives you two skill sets but we should be careful about reading too much into it. ultimately, the ceo has to run the company. it is not want to have a two headed monster of a board. meeting,he board is what do they talk about? what isnot tell you going on inside the microsoft board, i can't tell you what normally happens on a board discussion lik

they are looking to put such a in -- put satya nadella.heo not know whether person who is leading the search will step into the chair role. >> the potential board shakeup -- what would gates leaving the chairman position mean, assuming he continues as a director, just not as the chairman? >> right. i think when our story came out, a lot of people wondered whether he would be that much more removed from the day-to-day activities of the company. one would think he could end up consulting on a variety of different product initiatives at microsoft. one area where he has continued to lend his time over the years is, to example, search. there is a possibility that a role without being the chair, maybe you get him sitting down with people like satya nadella, talking about the product less caught and be up in what you have to do as a chairman. wexler we will be watching through the weekend, through the super bowl. bloombergbring in our editor, who predicted satya nadella would be back. this is your chance to do a victory lap. ,ecember 13 last year

the company is preparing to make satya nadella the new ceo. linewith more is there a you spoke to him recently. lex i did indeed. he was unassuming. interested,ngaging, interesting, gentlemanly, notably loyal. this is what he told me. >> you are in it for the long haul no matter who is in charge, yourself or someone else? >> absolutely. could well be him. he would be the third ever ceo for microsoft. there has only ever been bill gates and steve ballmer. he is very different from steve ballmer. he will not be leaping up on stage, dancing, sweating, screaming at the top of his lungs. internally, he is very highly respected. he is a tech veteran as well as a tech geek. leadership roles across the board. notably in the new areas, the areas microsoft is pushing to gain ground, to innovate. he has led the cloud services. that is where he leads now, of course. increasing sales over the last quarter. he is the head of the server unit and sales up 22% since 2011. he has also headed bing. he is front and center of where microsoft is trying to shift, aw

the board is said to be making satya nadella the new chief. he is the head of the company's and her present cloud unit. the board is also said to be considering any chairman to take over for bill gates. here with more is caroline hyde. potentialt with the ceo, you met him recently. >> i did, in december. , very softlyng man spoken, interested, interesting. not forthright, not a huge presence. he was very nice, very welcoming. very easy to talk to. he could become the third ceo at microsoft has ever had. this is a company with more than a 40 year history. only ever been led by bill gates and steve ballmer. after five long months, we have whittled our way down from more than a hundred candidates. gone is tony bates, he is not going to be ceo. neither is chief operating officer kevin turner. it could be a man who has been at microsoft for more than 20 years. in 1992.ella joined he is at the forefront of the development for microsoft at the moment. >> benefits in that business ,elped drive the revenues didn't they? >> it doubled in the last quarte

and i think you've got to make sure that satya has the ability to make radical change.ies that are put in place already. >> i mean, how do you have characterize -- you know microsoft really well. you're one of the top analysts at this. how would you characterize what microsoft is like inside? is it an organization that is just bursting with ideas that this internal candidate will be able to grab hold of and transform the company, or is it bereft of ideas and it needs an outsider to come in and inject life into it? >> i think that steve balmer's been a particularly difficult manager for product people to work with. >> does he kill ideas? >> i don't think that you are, like, apple a company that encourages creativity. and i think that's a culture particularly as you address the consumer market that needs to be reinstilled in the company. so, i think you need to bring in a very different orientation, it probably means changing out some of the people in the company as well as kind of the influence that you have from the board here. >> we'll see if we get something today, ri

such an ella -- satya nadella.--op and hans vesberg.op and hans the cloud business is on the rise. i wonder whether that pushes things -- he said he would say at microsoft the matter what. we have no clarity on who will be taking over. microsoft does seem to be more.ed more. -- reaping isevenue increase for 14% not bad for a company that is a giant in this industry. much.n, thank you very theloomberg got in on google party in davos. looks like no one at this party is opting for the early-morning panel. that's why no one turned up today. to watch people -- it is mean to watch people dancing without a drink in your hand, the morning-after. we will take a short break. coming up, the: brothers and brothersin -- the coen and press again with a new movie. ♪ >> welcome back to countdown. i might barton -- i am mark barton. --anna an edwards edwards. davos but start out in -- let's start out in davos. what do you have for us? ipad.put it on the german]g >> he believes there is a leadership role for the united states. he do

the company prepared to name insider satya nadella as a replacement for steve ballmer.or the cloud and enterprise businesses that's responsible for the cloud and enterprise businesses. what goes on in the c suite and boardrooms. let me start with you, let's take this approach. list, but was on the came out of nowhere as the top contender. is he the one to change the company? >> normally you would not think that an insider would be the one to change a company, but given the fact that the company has been so much about the office system and windows, that bringing up somebody that has little allegiance to those tem couldthe sys be an opportunity for change. >> he is also a safe bet. he is running about a quarter of the revenue, and the majority of net profits of the company with the enterprise system. it is a safe that. he came in in 1992, well before the 95 change -- the 1995 change. >> is this saying that the cloud, nothe windows, or xbox? >> the focus of the company, the server business, it has transformed. they have got off to a slow start relative to competitors, but

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satya nadela. it might make this ceo in place of steve ballmer.a good idea to get an insider? >> he has a veteran been there for ages, people really like him. i am worried about the insider coming in. my stock needs a big >> for them to start making moves on the computer side. obviously they had a good hold on business infrastructure. but by bringing and incited to the top spot they are in essentially saying we are not going to make major changes to what we have been doing and that is what they need. stuart: stock opened on the upside and has moved to the downside. they are listening to you. 25 years ago i bought the early nintendo. mario. >> did you beat it? stuart: it was my son. >> some day. stuart: 45 years later is nintendo having a rough time? >> they are having a tough time and that is people moving to all digital, buying games on their phones or going to more powerful consul's from sony and microsoft. they need to make moves and weathered that is putting software on other platforms beyond their own they need something because the latest co

microsoft reportedly on the verge of naming satya nadella as its new ceo.lmer is retiring and the guessing game of who will take over has been frenetic. in dwrael nadella is a 22-year veteran of microsoft. the focus has been on outsiders potentially coming in. we'll look for confirmation that it will be an insider instead to be only the third ceo >>> we have that exclusive interview with president obama, but first, we want to get to major headlines.

lot -- stephen elop , tony bates, satya nadella.he company is going to have to answer to steve ballmer and bill gates, they are watching every step you make as ceo. >> interesting to see what direction microsoft heads in. as you have been pointing out, this is a cash generating business. >> for steve ballmer's time at microsoft, they had $20 billion in revenue, and spinning off cash. some of those cash streams do not seem to be diminishing. they still have a strong balance sheet and are in a decent position. this is internally, they need a strategy for mobile and for search, for the future. >> thank you, hans nichols. abouting a little chat what could happen next at microsoft. let's change our attention to what is happening at ces in vegas. wearable technology and curved screens. joining us for more insight on how this is going to change the market is former vice president of skype, recently founded an initiative called tech london advocates. one of the clear things that has come out of ces is that there has been a huge proliferatio

. >>> then there's microsoft, the company is now close to naming satya nadella as ceo. co-founder bill gates might even step aside as chairman. i still can't get over that. >> that was what everybody said, nobody wanted to be a ceo when you have a chairman with such big ideas and so much power. >> he's still going to be on the board, but i would assume that's an interesting dynamic for that to happen. nadal la. this news started to leak out yesterday. and you're seeing its stock up slightly. steve balmer said if i'm going the leave, the reason i'm going to leave is we need to bring in a new voice. >> new blood. anywhere you get there, new blood, potentially. potentially. >> right now, let's head down to new york and check in with joe. joe, good morning. are you watching the markets this morning, too? >> it's january 31st. we are down 4% at the beginning of yesterday's session and we got back 20 s&p points, which got us back, i think, 1794 or something. >> but we're going to give it all back this morning. >> and be back down 4% on the opening, it looks like. i was watchi