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No regrets for Nadella over heading for the cloud

John Davidson

Failing to pick the mobile phone trend hasn't proved to be the disaster everyone thought it would be for Microsoft, says the computing giant's CEO Satya Nadella.

Mr Nadella said it's better Microsoft "missed" the phone than if the software giant had missed cloud computing, backing his 2016 decision to walk away from the company's struggling mobile phone business to "go all in" on its then-fledgling cloud business, Azure.

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John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com

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