Microsoft and Salesforce seal partnership with focus on Office 365, Windows integration

As reported earlier today, Microsoft Corp. and Salesforce.com confirmed this afternoon a strategic partnership to create new solutions that connect salesforce.com's customer relationship management (CRM) apps and platform to Microsoft Office and Windows.

In what Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff described in a conference call as "step one" in the new partnership, the companies will be working to integrate Saleforce's CRM software with Microsoft's Office 365 and Windows "at a deeper level than was previously available."

Salesforce will also start using Azure more in its development environments, Benioff said. Microsoft has also renewed its ...

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