Microsoft's CEO takes the ice bucket challenge, wins gloriously

Since Satya Nadella became Microsoft's third CEO in February, we've gradually learned more about him. He writes long memos, quotes poetry, and doesn't like to talk about the Nokia acquisition. But today we learned another, possibly even more important thing about Satya Nadella, and it is this: he will let you dump a huge bucket of water on his head for charity. Nadella is helping raise money to help fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and Microsoft contributed by staging a hackathon. (The result was a cool new way for people to communicate with the Surface using their eyes.)

But the real action was in the video embedded in this unfathomably long post on the corporate blog today. It shows Nadella taking what's known as the "i...

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