good friday morning. welcome to squawk alley. i m 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? i m in d.c., actually. all right. let s get to our top story today. i think we ll work on kara s audio there. shares of microsoft at all-time 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. i ve got a good life right now. i don t 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