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Microsoft’s Nadella: Public Cloud Will Be ‘The Big Winner’ In Down Economy
Wade Tyler Millward
‘The big winner in all of this will be public cloud because public cloud helps businesses offset the risk of demand risk,’ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says.

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