Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 5: After meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said it was encouraging to see India’s emphasis on digital transformation-led inclusive and sustainable economic growth.
Nadella, who is in India on business, met yesterday with S. Jaishankar, the minister of external affairs, and they spoke about a range of topics, including digital security and governance. Nadella will travel to Mumbai, Bengaluru, and New Delhi while in India.
“Thank you Narendra Modi for an insightful meeting. It’s inspiring to see the government’s deep focus on sustainable and inclusive economic growth led by digital transformation and we’re looking forward to helping India realize the Digital India vision and be a light for the world,” Microsoft chief tweeted on Thursday after meeting Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi.
Thank you @narendramodi for an insightful meeting. It’s inspiring to see the government’s deep focus on sustainable and inclusive economic growth led by digital transformation and we’re looking forward to helping India realize the Digital India vision and be a light for the world pic.twitter.com/xTDN9E9VdK
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) January 5, 2023
Nadella spoke at the Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai on Tuesday, his first day in India.
He said at the Summit that cloud-based services, which are by nature energy-efficient, are a “game changer” and that usage of such technologies will increase in the future.
“Cloud-native applications (which is in the native-to-intermediate stage) have yet not begun…by 2025 you are going to have most of the application anybody builds really at that efficient frontier of cloud net,” Nadella said.
“When you move to the cloud, for example, it’s 70-80 per cent more energy efficient. If you want to be more energy efficient on any workload, the first thing to do is to move to the cloud,” he added.