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Steve Ballmer, CEO of the US Microsoft Corp. speaks during a press conference in Taipei on November 4, 2009. US software giant Microsoft Corp. signed an agreement with Taiwan to jointly establish a research centre here for the development of an Internet computing technology.

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  1. Microsoft Corporation's Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundiee speaks during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 30, 2010.
  2. Microsoft founder Bill Gates (L) and his wife Melinda attend a news conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 29, 2010.
  3. Microsoft founder Bill Gates (L) and his wife Melinda attend a news conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 29, 2010.
  4. Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, attends a news conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 29, 2010.
  5. Microsoft founder Bill Gates attends a news conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 29, 2010.
  6. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, looks over his papers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.
  7. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, looks over his papers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.
  8. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his spouse Melinda Gates walk through the main lobby at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.
  9. Microsoft founder Bill Gates looks on during a panel discussion on "Meeting the Millennium Development Goals", at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.
  10. Microsoft founder Bill Gates gestures as he speaks during a panel on "Meeting the Millennium Development Goals", at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.
  11. Microsoft founder Bill Gates looks on during a panel discussion on "Meeting the Millennium Development Goals", at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.
  12. Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 29, 2010.
  13. Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 29, 2010.
  14. Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 29, 2010.
  15. Melinda Gates (L), wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and France's First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (C) speak with long-suffering people during their visit at the hospital "Auberge de l'Amour Redempteur" in Dangbo January 27, 2010. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is in Benin for a two-day visit with the Global Fund to fight AIDS.
  16. Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith gestures while addressing an audience during a discussion on focusing on future policy and regulatory challenges for the ICT sector with particular reference to cloud computing at the Arts and History Museum in Brussels, Tuesday Jan. 26, 2010. The event was entitled: "Technology Leadership in the 21st Century: How Cloud Computing will Change Our World".

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