This time, Microsoft will ensure ‘Cloud’ is not just a pie in the sky

Microsoft may have missed the mobile race and traditionally worked in a closed ecosystem, but one revolution which it will certainly not miss out on is the Cloud that is gaining ground in India and around the world.

Satya Nadella, the third CEO of Microsoft who is credited with changing the direction of the company with a revised mission statement, wants to do exactly that. The company’s new mission statement reads: “Empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more”. Microsoft is open to working with companies and technologies with which it competes.

Currently, around 50 per cent of Microsoft’s India revenues comes from its cloud computing infrastructure and services, which were under 20 per cent just three to four years back. However, under Nadella’s leadership,