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Amazon wants you to dump Microsoft's corporate email platform

Sorry to remind you of one of the more banal parts of working life, but it's time for a story about corporate email services. It's a market that's traditionally been dominated by Microsoft, although Google is managing make some in-roads with its enterprise apps platform. Now, however, Amazon is hoping to coax some disgruntled Exchange veterans away with its new WorkMail service.

Rather than pretend to be a wholesale replacement for Microsoft's software, Amazon (through Amazon Web Services, the company's server business), as just a secure back-end. That way, people can still use Microsoft Outlook for emails and calendars, but the data will just be run inside Amazon's cloud. The benefit of which, as far as Jeff Bezos is concerned, is that he'll handle the security and all the fiddly setup. It'll cost around $4 per user, and is expected to launch at some point before the Summer.

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