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David Rosenthal: belief

22 Jul 2024 Acquired Microsoft Volume II

“I think that is both, especially in the early days when Microsoft and Satya was hyping up how much cloud revenue the company was doing, being able to report the legacy server business as part of that revenue helped a lot.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
22 Jul 2024
Publisher
Acquired

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…Intelligent Cloud includes SQL Server and Windows Server. These are big legacy businesses. I think that is both, especially in the early days when Microsoft and Satya was hyping up how much cloud revenue the company was doing, being able to report the legacy server business as part of that revenue helped a lot. On the other hand, the counter argument to that is this is actually Microsoft’s competitive advantage versus AWS. Totally agree.…

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