Microsoft and Amazon compete aggressively in the cloud market and routinely trade barbs. During his recent keynote at the company’s re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy showed stats that put AWS’s share of the cloud infrastructure market at 45%, more than double Microsoft Azure. Jassy called Microsoft’s database licensing restrictions “punitive” for customers, and criticized Microsoft’s overall approach to cloud technology.
Microsoft has managed to avoid the political spotlight over the past few years as its tech industry peers have been swept up in a range of issues in Washington D.C.
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Michael Moe, founder of Global Silicon Valley, a US-based education and technology investment bank, said, "China's education business, especially the potential in the early-stage segment, is frequently talked about. In China, you don't need to worry about the market size."
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Monday was the first trading day foreign individuals working on the Chinese mainland were allowed to trade in the country's A-share market. It marked a milestone in financial market opening-up, analysts said.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates suggested Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire stepping down as chair of e-commerce giant Alibaba next year, could use his digital prowess to improve financial services in poor regions.
Mike Honda, a former member of the US House of Representatives, who as the chief sponsor of a July 2007 House resolution urged Japan to acknowledge and accept responsibility for the sexual exploitation of "comfort women," joined elected officials at the event to greet Lee and denounce those who deny history.
Microsoft,?which lags far behind Amazon in terms of share of the public cloud computing market, has also become a trailblazer in the realm of Chinese cloud computing. Through a partnership with 21Vianet, a Chinese Internet data center services provider, the company became?the first multinational to receive the necessary qualifications to offer its public cloud computing services in China. This development was among those inspiring prominent Beijing-based venture capitalist and Internet mogul Kai-Fu Lee to?recently suggest?that Amazon follow Microsoft’s path to break into the Chinese cloud computing industry.
Mo Daiqing, a senior analyst at the Internet Economy Institute, a domestic consultancy, emphasized that the lower-tier markets are a significant engine for driving the continuous growth of new users and boosting consumption, thus helping promote the recovery of the real economy.