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Question: How was MSFT's capex spend compared to GOOGL?
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MSFT
Source: Q1 MSFT Earnings Call 2016
Because if you look at what we do is we spend our capital only to really fuel the growth, or to service the growth of usage across Office 365 and Azure, and you see that increasing.
Source: Q2 MSFT Earnings Call 2016
First of all, when NAME_1 and I think about both our CapEx, as well as our OpEx, both on the engineering side, as well as on our sales and marketing side, we think about this still at a Microsoft cloud level.
Source: Q3 MSFT Earnings Call 2016
And to your question on Azure gross margin specifically and how we think about that in comparison, let me first say, the additional color I gave in terms of comments in terms of material improvement clearly also apply to our Azure portfolio as well.
Source: Q4 MSFT Earnings Call  I want the entire output in JSON format.
user