Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tried to find something nice to say about the election

Yesterday, the US voted to elect Donald Trump as its next president, and no shortage of tech industry figures have taken time today to publicly melt down in interviews with the press and on Twitter. Venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar wants California to secede and Slack CEO Stuart Butterfield said he was “heartbroken.” Meanwhile, Facebook is on the defensive, refusing to acknowledge that its algorithmic News Feed may have had an adverse effect on the public’s ability to digest unbiased information during the election cycle.

Over in Redmond, Microsoft is just being Microsoft. In a statement posted to LinkedIn this afternoon, CEO Satya Nadella provided perhaps the safest series of thoughts one could possibly have about the outcome of...

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