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WPC Day 1 Twitter Highlights: Ballmer Touts Microsoft Cloud, Power BI Impresses, More

  • Stay up-to-date on the latest news from WPC here.

RCP Editor in Chief Scott Bekker is in Houston this week for Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference. He live-Tweeted all through Monday's opening keynote -- the high points are below. Stay up-to-date on all WPC-related news and impressions by following Scott at @scottbekker and bookmarking our WPC 2013 page here.

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Posted by Scott Bekker on July 08, 2013


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