Microsoft shaking up its board once again amidst MSFT share price gains

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Published onDecember 2, 2015

published onDecember 2, 2015

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Microsoft’s last Board of Directors shakeup saw two retirements and two new additions, and as with all corporate boards, the changes aren’t stopping there.According to The Seattle Times, Microsoft’s board will be experiencing some additional changes soon.First, we have Maria Klawe retiring after six years on the board. With her departure, only three board members remain who were on the board prior to 2012. Co-founder Bill Gates, of course, remains the longest-running board member.Two women were nominated to succeed Klawe, which of course requires another board seat (for a total of 11 directors). Sandra Peterson from Johnson & Johnson and Padmasree Warrior from Cisco are the nominees.

In more news, Microsoft stock hit very close to an all-time high earlier this morning, trading at $55.96. You have to go back to December 31, 1999 for a higher share price, when MSFT traded at $58.38.

With Microsoft showing some strength with its stock price, CEO Satya Nadella shouldn’t suffer too much from seeing his salary cut from $84,308,755 in fiscal 2014 to $18,294,270 in fiscal 2015. He also received a grant of up to 2.7 million MSFT shares based on the MSFT price, which at today’s price would equal $151,092,000. Clearly, Nadella is being well-compensated for the recent success of Microsoft’s “cloud-first, mobile-first” strategy, while sharing in the risk of the strategy’s future performance.Finally, we note that Bill Gates decreased his ownership stake in Microsoft, with his shares dropping from 290 million in 2014 to 222 million shares in 2015. That’s a decrease from 3.6% to 2.8% of outstanding MSFT shares.Microsoft is making some serious fundamental changes to how the company is doing business, and apparently the stock market agrees with what they’re trying to do. We’ll be keeping a close eye on how the company performance financially, because of course that will determine whether Nadella stick with the current strategy or tries something even more different.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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With KB5043178 to Release Preview Channel, Microsoft advises Windows 11 users to plug in when the battery is low#

Copilot in Outlook will generate personalized themes for you to customize the app#

Microsoft will raise the price of its 365 Suite to include AI capabilities#

Death Stranding Director’s Cut is now Xbox X|S at a huge discount#

Outlook will let users create custom account icons so they can tell their accounts apart easier#

Microsoft shaking up its board once again amidst MSFT share price gains#