Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer gives a speech during a news conference in Taipei November 4, 2009. Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research centre on the island by next year, in the software company's first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry. Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer gives a speech during a news conference in Taipei November 4, 2009. Microsoft Corp. and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research centre on the island by next year, in the software company's first Asian foray into the budding cloud computing industry.

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