Former rivals Microsoft and Salesforce.com extended a mutual olive branch last week, as both companies have entered into a new strategic partnership to create new solutions for their joint customers



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“We are excited to partner with salesforce.com and help customers thrive in a mobile and cloud-first world,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, in a prepared statement. “Working together we’ll deliver new solutions that connect the customer insights of Salesforce to the cloud productivity of Office 365, the cloud platform of Azure and the mobility of Windows, so our customers can do more.”

Under the terms of the partnership, both companies plan to provide Salesforce1 for Windows and Windows Phone 8.1, allowing customers to access Salesforce and run their business from their mobile devices. A preview program for the integrated program is expected to launch in the fall, with general availability for all users coming sometime in 2015.

  Microsoft, Salesforce Team for Global Partnership