Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im kaylee towshe. Rick santelli joins us as well. Carl quintanilla has the morning off. Executive editor kara swisher. Good morning to you too. How you doing . Im in d. C. , actually. All right. Lets get to our top story today. I think well work on karas audio there. Shares of microsoft at alltime highs this morning for the First Time Since 1999, the company beating the street on the top and bottom lines and showing Significant Growth if the cloud. Former microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer joining our friend op squawk box talking about the stellar quarter and a potential acquisition of twitter. I have never, ever, ever wanted to buy twitter myself. I mean, come on. Ive got a good life right now. I dont need to do that. Of course, mike, they asked the question because he is a large twitter shareholder, not just an outside tech observer. Interestingly on microsoft this morning, people are joking that it only took 17 years to get yours. If you were h