By: Robert J. Mullins, eWeek
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner said the company would “respect everyone but fear no one” in going after competitors and detailed, at its partner conference, how Microsoft outperforms each of them. Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner delivered a spirited pep talk to partners at a conference in Toronto July 11, showing how Microsoft is challenging them in several areas, including cloud computing, virtualization, security, mobile, workplace software and operating systems. With the various new products already introduced–Office 365, Windows 7—and those coming in the near future–including Office 15, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Server 2012–Turner explained to the 16,000 partners attending the Worldwide Partners Conference how Microsoft can beat VMware, Salesforce.com, Google and Apple in the technology sector.
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