I think our actions will move free speech forward much more than Google's. [Besides,] China is not the only country that practises censorship," he said. He added that Google's exit may not have much impact on Microsoft Bing 's market share in China, noting that the much bigger search competition was local incumbent, Baidu. Ballmer acknowledged that Google's greatest strength over Microsoft is in the search market, and named Amazon Web Services as the biggest competitor in the cloud space when pitted against Microsoft's Azure offering. Private cloud will co-exist On Microsoft's hybrid cloud response to SaaS it calls " software plus services ", the CEO said private clouds will continue to draw demand alongside public clouds. Demand will come from governments and enterprises that have highly-sensitive data they need to protect wihin their shores or even within the four walls of their companies, he said.