Google today is a dominant company in our industry. For years we’ve competed in the marketplace while also feuding through nonstop complaints to government regulators in the United States and abroad. As CEO, I decided to turn the page on that strategy, reasoning that it was time to end our regulatory battles and focus all of our energy on competing for customers in the cloud. Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, is a competitor who I also count as a friend. After a series of very productive discussions and thoughtful negotiations between our two organizations, led by Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president
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