Steve Ballmer gave a live webcast today and said that Microsoft is betting its future on the cloud.

史蒂夫鲍尔默在今天的网上直播上表示，微软将公司的未来押宝在云技术上。

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"We are betting big on the cloud with our most successful product, and we are investing heavily both in the product engineering side and the physical infrastructure side, " Tim O'Brien, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, said last year when the company first unveiled a Web-based version of its Office software.

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As databases in general become more strategically vital, and as cloud technology becomes essential within advanced IT architectures, Oracle is betting that the combination of speed and cost-performance offered by its increasingly popular Exadata engineered systems will allow the company to stay well ahead of other alternatives.

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