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I'm Ricky Mulvey, joined today by Nick Cypel, live from what appears to be an empty room

Nick.

Welcome to the show.

We'll be here with you, Ricky.

As you alluded to, I'm getting ready to move next week, so my whole life is in boxes.

There's this array everywhere, but we'll try to remain clear-headed here for this episode.

Yeah, it's a stressful time.

Someone who's not having, I would say, a stressful morning, though, is Satya Nadella,

the CEO of Microsoft, because if it's hard to accelerate a cruise ship, don't tell this

tech company they beat expectations, growing revenue at a 13% clip to $50 billion just

in this quarter before we dive into the details.

What's your big take on it?

Just really how remarkable the growth story is for Microsoft.

You think about this as a company that's going to turn 50 years old and two years still

delivering the type of growth that it's putting out there into the market.

You just laid out there the 13% revenue growth.

Net income up 27% in the quarter, over $20 billion in free cash, flow, buying back, and

that $4.2 billion in stock, expenses growing at the slowest rate in seven years, a company

that's getting ready to turn 50 years old.

You think it would be maturing.

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