a clear number two player behind a.w.s.nd everybody else bringing up the rear. 62% growth with azure is pretty astounding with cloud computing. we don't see that slowing down at all for the near future. >> in terms of that enormous contract from the pentagon, $10 billion, is there now an expectation that microsoft will continue to deliver big deals like this? how much more upside is there? >> a lot of it is derivative off that. when you win a big deal like that, everybody wakes up and says there must be something going on there. let's check it out. indeed that has happened. there are a number of sectors that have gone, that pretty strongly with microsoft as a cloud provider. will there be more big deals like that? we doubt that there will be gigantic deals in cloud. it tends to be a bunch of really small deals adding up. occasionally you get something like this. that jedi contract with the government, $10 billion over a certain amount of time is a lot of money but mostly i think so it is just raising awareness that microsof

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