I was disappointed that Ballmer didn't give Ray Ozzie more credit. Azure was incubated inside Ray's org and Cutler worked for Ray. I remember Ray telling me that he had to go to the board and ask for $1 billion to build a datacenter. This was in 2005, I think, when that seemed like a crazy amount of money.

Ballmer sort of acknowledged Ray's role when he said that Cutler would not have wanted to work in the Servers and Tools org. But I think Ballmer undersells how much of the Azure strategy actually came from Ray.