Microsoft’s Cloud business to become bigger than Windows? A real possibility

Microsoft recently announced that its digital assistant, Cortana, is not a platform but an application, a report by Forbes said. Microsoft which jumped into the cloud business is gaining momentum in the field. Now, the company plans to focus on subscription applications which run all over. Why investors should be paying attention As per Forbes, Microsoft’s transition started in the year 2014 when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella pushed for subscriptions and the cloud as successful business in future for the company. Nadella worked with Red Hat to give a boost to Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform, Azure Cloud. The company struck another deal with Salesforce in order to take Microsoft Office applications to its own giant customer relationship management platform.