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Here's your daily crunch. We tend to take the cloud for granted today as a way of delivering and building software,

but it wasn't always the case.

Less than a decade ago in fact companies like Microsoft

sold most of their software in boxes or in large on-prem installations inside customer data centers.

Around 2012, as the company began thinking about what the future of computing might look like,

it became clear that software would eventually move to the cloud.

On TechCrunch.com, read how Microsoft had to go through a long journey of changing internal

processes and convincing customers the cloud was a more efficient way to deliver software.

And Instagram added two features to Reels yesterday,

text to speech and voice effects.

These features are popular already on Tik-Tock,

but now creators can use them on Instagram too.

This marks yet another effort from Instagram to keep up with Tik-Tok when it comes to short-form

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