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WPC Day 3 Twitter Highlights: Surface as a 'Hero' Platform, WPC 2014 Location, More

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Once again, Scott live-Tweeted his way through today's Worldwide Partner Conference keynote, which featured the always-entertaining Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO. Follow Scott @scottbekker and visit our WPC 2013 portal page here to stay on top of all the conference happenings.

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Posted by Scott Bekker on July 10, 2013


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