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Dynamics is in the driver’s seat for Microsoft’s efforts with one of its biggest tech bets, says Joshua Greenbaum.

The backstory to the launch of Windows 8, Windows 8 Phone, the Surface and all the other recent announcements from Microsoft is more than just a little interesting for Microsoft Dynamics, the enterprise software sub-division of Microsoft and one of the smallest pieces in the software and hardware company’s vast portfolio. Indeed, the backstory for Dynamics is really no backstory at all. Dynamics is in the driver’s seat for Microsoft’s efforts to realize one of the biggest technologies bets in Microsoft’s or any other technology company’s history. If Dynamics can pull it off, the trickle-up success across Microsoft will provide an unexpected element of prescience and justification to the oft-questioned decision to buy Great Plains and Navision and launch the company’s enterprise software aspirations. Just to keep the pressure up, we’re talking more than just any old technol...

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