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“Microsoft is also selling web services to business. Any company that wants to purchase 5,000 seats or more for a Microsoft Exchange e-mail system can use something called Exchange Online, completely hosted by Microsoft on servers it dedicates to that company. Coca-Cola Enterprises has 70,000 employees using such a system. Microsoft is also now beta-testing a do-it-yourself version of Exchange Online, in which companies as small as five people will be able to create a corporate e-mail system just by going to a website and submitting a credit card number. Microsoft will host and maintain the service.”