Microsoft is dropping the price 40 percent on its CRM Live hosting for partners who host—and resell—its customer relationship management software, hoping to drive partner demand in a non-partner space.

The new price, announced Oct. 23 at Microsofts annual Convergence conference, in Copenhagen, is $15 per month per user, dangerously low for competitors, but in a space where few competitors sell to partners.

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