Satya's big week out

A day that started out well for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — with a tony, hopeful Vanity Fair article about his future leadership — came crashing down around him this afternoon in Arizona. Speaking at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (you can't make this stuff up), Nadella responded to a question about advice for women who don't feel comfortable asking for raises — and managed to shove his foot so far into his mouth that the audience could no longer see his kneecap. According to a Mashable report, Nadella said, "It's not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. ...women who don't ask for raises...[have a] superpower ... because that's good karma, that'll come back ... that's the kind of person that I want to trust." So far, a Google Earth view of Redmond fails to show masses of women streaming from Microsoft's main campus, but I'm sure, somewhere out there, Microsoft's board is hunkered down in its underground panic room. — B.A.