Microsoft Ignite 2021: 4 Top Takeaways From Scott Guthrie And Judson Althoff Guthrie, who heads Microsoft’s cloud and AI group, and Althoff, who heads the worldwide commercial business, used keynotes at Ignite to discuss the future of Azure, Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform. By Wade Tyler Millward March 04, 2021, 01:28 PM EST As cloud technology advances in the coming years and customers become more comfortable with adopting it, the cloud is going to become an “ingredient” in “everything that happens in the world,” a top Microsoft executive said during the company’s Ignite 2021 conference this week. “I don’t think there’s going to be a physical device in the world that, five or 10 years down the road, will not have an IP address and will not be in some way cloud connected,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for the tech giant’s cloud and AI groups.