Mr. Ballmer’s Wild Ride! Microsoft Execs Will Address Wall Street Suits Today.

Hey, kids, it’s time for the Microsoft Mouse Club at the annual Financial Analysts Meeting in Anaheim today.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Transformation: New Microsoft Server and Tools Head Satya Nadella Speaks!

After he was appointed the new president of Microsoft’s important Server and Tools Division from his top engineering post at its come-from-behind Bing search unit, Satya Nadella now finds himself a leader of a business that also needs to keep catching up too. In a wide-ranging interview with BoomTown yesterday, Nadella talked about both his four-year stint at Bing and how he looked forward the challenges of his new job.
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Ripples in Microsoft's Cloud as Amitabh Srivastava Leaves

One of the few to carry the title Distinguished Engineer, he’s credited with getting Windows development back on track, then creating its cloud computing platform.

Bing Overlord Satya Nadella Promoted to President of Server and Tools at Microsoft

Satya Nadella, the Microsoft exec who has been in charge of its Bing search effort, has been promoted to president of its Server and Tools Business. He replaces Bob Muglia, a longtime exec who was ousted recently in CEO Steve Ballmer’s effort to shake things up at the company and stress the company’s technical expertise.

Microsoft and Some Big Thinking Heads at Farsight 2011: "Beyond the Search Box"

Oh dear, BoomTown is still jetlagged from a recent trip to China and now Microsoft Bing is offering up a head-requiring event later this morning in San Francisco to explore the future of search. There better be donuts. A lot and with sprinkles, since speakers include the lugubrious investor and hedge fund philosophizer Peter Thiel and skunk-at-a-Web-garden-party author Malcolm Gladwell.

Binging in the Holidays (With Donuts!)

Microsoft announced a bunch of new Bing updates, most notably deeper Facebook integration and a coming update for the iPhone app that allows users to upload their own panorama images.

Exclusive: Exec Changes at MSN–Jorgensen to Mobile, Cahall to MSN

Here is a memo just put out by Microsoft SVP Satya Nadella about big management changes at MSN, obtained by BoomTown. Current MSN head Erik Jorgensen will move over full-time to focus on mobile efforts and his replacement will be Ted Cahall, who most recently headed AOL’s tech efforts.

He Thinks Bing Can: Microsoft Search Head Satya Nadella a Year Later

Yesterday, Microsoft Online Service SVP Satya Nadella–also known as the search-dude-in-chief–presided over the Search Summit, to update the media on the progress of the Bing service. In this video interview, BoomTown chatted with him about the search engine’s aggressive efforts to make a dent in the market dominance of Google, which has a share of upwards of 70 percent. Bing has just broken into the double digits, which is impressive, but it’s still fighting an uphill battle. It’s essentially the little search engine that could.

Liveblogging Microsoft Bing's Search Summit 2010: There Will Be Donuts (and Also Cream Puffs!)

After BoomTown complained at December’s search summit held by Bing about the lack of the finest pastry known to man–namely, donuts!–minions were dispatched by top Microsoft geek general Satya Nadella to fix the dire situation. And, happily, at Search Summit 2010, there on the lovely snack table were a small pile of them–which looked like Krispy Kreme to me. There were lacking the key sprinkles feature, but carb crisis averted and back to search news!

Microsoft to Newspaper Publishers: Seriously. We’re Not Bailing You Out.

Just in case newspaper publishers are still fantasizing about cashing big Bill Gates checks in exchange for bailing on Google, Microsoft wants to be clear: Don’t count on us. And today’s message was on the record.
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MSN Changes Afoot?