How Microsoft’s ‘presence’ in India has changed post Covid

Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella is bullish about Asia as an investment market for data centers, as the company plans to build more data centers around the world. He is specially betting big on India and China. In an interview to CNBC, Nadella said that Microsoft has witnessed a huge demand in development of new native cloud applications. “Absolutely. We’re very, very bullish about what’s happening in Asia,” Nadella said during the interview.

Talking about India, Microsoft chairman said that the country has seen a “massive growth market” after emerging from the pandemic. “Microsoft’s presence in India was mostly multinational companies operating in India. But for now, it’s completely changed,” he said. “It’s the reverse where these companies who are innovating in India, whether it’s the big large conglomerates, or the new startups, are all using [artificial intelligence] cloud technology to be able to innovate and create services that are obviously popular in India and elsewhere,” he told CNBC. The company says with Indian companies developing on Superapps, the demand for cloud-based infrastructure and apps has gone up.