As the meeting progressed, Satya suddenly exclaimed with a bit of a chuckle, “Isn’t this great?” He continued, “For years it has been next to impossible to get all the engineers across the company to agree on a single privacy architecture. Now the regulators and lawyers have told us what to do. The job of creating a single architecture just got a whole lot easier.” It was an interesting observation. Engineering is a creative process and engineers are creative people. When two software engineering teams approached the same problem in different ways, it could be enormously difficult to persuade
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