CEO Satya Nadella speaks of an even more Azure-centric environment: “Azure must become the infrastructure for AI, while we build our AI platform and developer tools on top of it.”
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In his latest AI positioning statement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that everything must revolve around Azure. The company is labeling this change, which came with various internal executive shifts, CoreAI.
Analysts, however, agreed that the statement reflected no meaningful changes to Microsoft’s AI strategy. The bluntest assessment came from Ryan Brunet, a principal research director at the Info-Tech Research Group: “This is classic Microsoft. It’s very much the same old garbage.”
Nadella said in his statement that AI is going to have to reshape Microsoft, in the same way that it is reshaping enterprise IT operations globally.
“More so than any previous platform shift, every layer of the application stack will be impacted. It’s akin to GUI, internet servers, and cloud-native databases all …