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Microsoft CEO Nadella joins Ballmer and Gates in making silly predictions

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A year into his tenure, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has now joined both of his predecessors, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, in achieving the dubious distinction of issuing spectacularly unlikely predictions.

Is doing this kind of thing on some sort of Microsoft executive checklist?

Nadella, as you may have heard last week, was asked by an ABC News interviewer to name “a technology that we rely on today that will not be around a decade from now?”

Nadella’s reply: “Fountain pens.”

The interviewer held up her garden-variety pen and asked, “No more of these?”

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Network World Paul McNamara

Microsoft’s $84 million man: What’s Nadella done to earn it?

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What could Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have done in just 10 months to convince shareholders he’s worth the $ 84 million pay package they approved earlier this month?

Quite a bit, it turns out, but it remains to be seen how his actions will pan out for the company over time, and in fact that long view was taken into account in his compensation bundle. It doesn’t allow some hefty stock grants to vest fully until 2021, and how much he ultimately gets is linked to how well Microsoft fares over that time vs other big corporations on the S&P 500.

+ Also on Network World: Nadella wins over Gartner crowd | CEO Nadella issues manifesto to shake up Microsoft +

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Network World Tim Greene

Microsoft’s Nadella finally apologizes

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Last Thursday Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stuck his foot in his mouth by saying that women should be seen but not heard asking for raises. On Friday he attempted to walk those comments back and was rather oddly credited by many media outlets for apologizing even though he did no such thing.

Yesterday he did apologize. From an email obtained by the Seattle Times:

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Network World Paul McNamara

First Nadella: Women shouldn’t ask for raises. Second Nadella: Yes they should

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Bottom line: I can’t help but believe that what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella first said about women asking for pay raises – that  they shouldn’t do it – is what Nadella actually believes and that his attempts to take it back are simply damage control.

Granted, it’s impossible to know for sure what someone else actually believes, but the two viewpoints Nadella expressed mere hours apart yesterday would seem impossible to reconcile.

Appearing at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Nadella was asked for his advice to women who are not comfortable asking for a raise.

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Network World Paul McNamara