Microsoft Azure - Why Didn't I?

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Microsoft's server division was about to acquire a piece of technology, basically for parallel data warehouses Inside of Bing, we were building up essentially the infrastructure for our data parallel workload. He realized in that moment how Microsoft could use Bing to accelerate their cloud service platform Azure and rival Amazon's version AWS. "That is one of the things I look back and say, why didn't I?" he said.

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