Amazon invests US$1 billion to help develop Microsoft 365 cloud technology

According to disclosures from industry insiders and internal documents, the news shows that Microsoft is about to usher in an important breakthrough on October 18, successfully winning an important customer for its cloud product service Microsoft 365, and this customer happens to be Microsoft in One of the competitors in the technology field, Amazon

According to reports, Amazon plans to switch its traditional Microsoft Office applications to the cloud-based Microsoft 365 subscription service. According to sources, Amazon will pay more than $1 billion (about 7.31 billion yuan) in the next five years to obtain more than 1 million Microsoft 365 licenses. This means everyone from Amazon’s frontline employees to senior management will adopt Microsoft 365. The news also revealed that Amazon plans to start preparing to migrate to this new Microsoft service in early November

If this report is true, for Microsoft, such a success in the enterprise field The victory will be huge. Previously, Amazon was reluctant to use Microsoft's cloud services due to competition between Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's Amazon Web Services

At the time this report came to light, Microsoft was preparing to launch Microsoft 365 for enterprise subscribers. Copilot service. It was recently confirmed that this generative artificial intelligence assistant will be launched on November 1st. It is understood that the service will cost users $30 per month and will enable its subscribers to automate multiple tasks in Office applications, such as drafting documents in Word, composing emails in Outlook, or summarizing in Teams Meeting. However, it's unclear whether Copilot was included in the deal with Amazon. Recently, Amazon hired a key Microsoft executive named Panos Panay. Panay, who previously ran Microsoft's Windows and Surface teams, will join Amazon's devices team at the end of October to run the unit and inject new energy into Amazon's devices business

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