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"Dell will supply 25,000 employees with its new Windows Phone 7-based smartphone, the Dell Venue Pro, instead of BlackBerrys, Dell CFO Brian Gladden said in an interview. \nAlthough it should save Dell 25% in mobile communication costs (mostly by getting rid of Blackberry servers), the switch is not just a cost-saving move. \n\"Clearly in this decision we are competing with RIM, because we're kicking them out,\" Brian Gladden said, adding that the company wants to offer a service that will help other companies make a similar move. \n\"I'm not sure I care as much about the devices as the services. There's a services opportunity that we think is even bigger,\" he said. \nThe move is definitely good news for Microsoft, which can use a kick start for its Windows Phone 7 platform, as it recently began to play catch-up with iOS and Android. And if you're worried about Android-loving Dell employees, you can sleep peacefully: Dell plans to offer an Android-based smartphone at a later date."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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