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The product is on track to generate $1.5 billion worth of revenue on annual basis, he said, and in 2014, he expects it to "blow that way."
He also took the opportunity to trash talk
But Microsoft says it will win them back, one by one.
Turner proudly proclaimed that Redmond had already nabbed back 430 Google Apps customers.
"It turns out, security, privacy, data protections" are "very important to enterprises," he said. "It helps that we don't read people's emails and snoop on their WiFi and that sort of thing gives them comfort in our enterprise solution."
On the other hand, Microsoft has been forced, repeatedly, to apologize for outages of its consumer clouds. That sort of thing doesn't sit well with enterprises, either.