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Turbulence on the Way to the Cloud
British newspaper publisher Telegraph Media switched from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail and is rolling out other Google Apps.

Apart from a compulsory move to Outlook, staff at TMG have been given access to all the programs within the Google Apps suite but have been allowed to choose whether to use Google Apps or carry on using their existing Microsoft application of choice instead. Subsequently, overall use of Microsoft software at TMG has dropped by two-thirds.

TMG has also recently struck a new deal with another cloud computing firm, Salesforce.com, to carry out payment processing for its online sales operation on Coda software on Salesforce's Force.com platform.

The business also uses hosted CRM from Salesforce.com (CRM) to manage its subscription service and advertising sales, as well as its expanding ecommerce business.

Microsoft should buy Yahoo to get its great monthly audience of 600 million monthly users to survive!

Windows killed by free OS Chrome and Office Software killed in the Cloud!!!