 "Flipkart switches over to Microsoft to power its cloud services")
India’s largest e-commerce marketplace Flipkart has opted to go with Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, as it looks to use the software company's technologies to help scale its business.
The deal between the Redmond company was announced by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella himself, during the course of a chat with Flipkart Group CEO Binny Bansal and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani in Bengaluru on Monday.
Microsoft is trying to win favour from start-ups in India to utilise its Azure cloud service after failing to get them to build apps for its Windows 10 platform. It is also playing catch up with
