Microsoft pegs savings from Edge, Office 365 search as high as $43M

Companies that use Microsoft Search, the Bing-powered search platform designed to sniff out internal corporate information, can save between $15 million and $43 million over the course of three years, Microsoft claimed.

Microsoft made this assertion – backed by analysis conducted by Forrester on Microsoft’s dime – earlier this year, but reinforced it this week when it cited the research firm’s report after it made search one of the five reasons that purportedly gave Edge a, well, edge over Chrome in the battle for best corporate browser.

“Previously, if your organization wanted to standardize on a single modern browser for use across all platforms, your only option was Chrome,” Brad Anderson, the company’s top executive in its Microsoft 365 group, wrote in an Aug. 4 post to a company blog. (That admission-of-sorts was remarkable on its own, as to Computerworld‘s knowledge, Microsoft has not ceded such before.) But the new Edge, the one Microsoft released in a stable form only in January, has five advantages, in Anderson’s eyes, over Google’s über-dominant browser – even when both were built atop a foundation laid by the open-source Chromium.

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