Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday that he regretted not getting into cloud computing earlier. The remarks point to Amazon’s success in building a business around renting computing and storage resources to companies, governments and schools. Amazon moved into the market well before Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and other information-technology providers, and has held on to its lead.
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