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Microsoft welcomes home 785 prodigal enterprises customers

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Microsoft welcomes home 785 prodigal enterprises customers
It's no secret that Microsoft is locked in a battle with Google for the enterprise market, and while Google gives away much more of its enterprise offerings than Microsoft, for almost one thousand firms, that wasn't enough. Microsoft announced at its Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington D.C., that in the past 18 months, 785 enterprise customers that the company had lost to Google's offerings have since returned. Read More


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