The recent acquisition of LinkedIn provides the potential for Microsoft to redefine social selling by combining the features of “Sales Navigator” in LinkedIn with Microsoft Dynamics.

By integrating the two applications, Microsoft’s “Office Graph” may be combined with LinkedIn’s “Social Graph”, creating a huge range of possibilities and increased productivity for sales and marketing professionals.

Further details, and comments from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella:
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/can-microsoft-do-for-sales-what-google-did-for-searches