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Microsoft's Don Mattrick introduces the Xbox One at the company's Redmond, Wash. headquarters on May 21, 2013
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Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox One entertainment and gaming console system is shown on stage in Redmond, Wash., on May 21, 2013.
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Steven Sinofsky presents at Microsoft's New York City launch event for Windows 8 on October 25, 2012
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Microsoft tablet PC Surface is shown at the launch event of Windows 8 operating system in New York, October 25, 2012.
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Microsoft's Surface Windows 8 Pro tablet.
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The temporary Microsoft Store in Times Square, New York on October 25, 2012, shortly before it opened for business.
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Microsoft's Panos Panay demos Surface at Microsoft's Windows 8 launch event on October 25, 2012
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A Microsoft representative holds a new Surface tablet computer showing Windows 8's "Metro" touch interface.
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Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky and Panos Panay show off the Surface tablet to journalists at an event in Redmond, Wash. on October 15, 2012
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Microsoft co-founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates at the PC Forum conference in February 1987
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Microsoft's 1993 "Microsoft Mouse 2.0" -- supposedly equally pleasing in either hand, but with suspiciously right-handed curves
From left: Ballmer: Nancy Kaszerman / ZUMA; Yang: Paul Sakuma / AP
When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer couldn't coax Yahoo! boss Jerry Yang into a deal, he went hostile. But smooshing together MSN and Yahoo! would be difficult. What would their mutant love child look like?
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DALE GHENT acted fast and registered the domain name of
the Microsoft founder. He has received more than 70,000 e-mails
on it, most of them intended for Gates
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Xbox One is shown on display during a press event unveiling Microsoft's new Xbox in Redmond, Washington May 21, 2013.
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Word 2013, part of Microsoft's Office 365 subscription service.
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Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows group at Microsoft Corp., speaks during an event in New York on Oct. 25, 2012.
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Actress/entrepreneur Jessica Alba helps Microsoft's Joe Belfiore introduce Windows Phone 8 at a launch event in San Francisco on October 29, 2012
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Bill Gates, surrounded by boxes with a now-ancient Microsoft logo in 1986
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Google and Microsoft follow Apple into the technology hardware market.
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Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveils Windows Phone 7, an updated version of the company's mobile operating system
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Microsoft's new Xbox
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Microsoft Corporation Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer speaks during a news conference in Moscow.
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Microsoft is becoming just like Wal-Mart and Mcdonalds.
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Microsoft operating software will soon appear on LG mobile phones.
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Microsoft aims to open its own retail outlets.
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Microsoft plans to offer free Web versions of Word (shown here), Excel and other programs by 2010
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Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gives the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 7, 2007, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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In 1995, consumers in Sydney, Australia go gaga for Windows 95, Microsoft's most rapturously-received upgrade of all time
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The Windows 8 software homepage is displayed on tablet devices at the Microsoft Corp. Windows 8 software consumer preview event at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012.
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New Surface tablet computers with keyboards are displayed at its unveiling by Microsoft in Los Angeles, California, June 18, 2012.
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New Surface tablet computers with keyboards are displayed at an unveiling by Microsoft in Los Angeles.
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Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at Microsoft headquarters, Oct. 13, 2011, in Redmond, Washington.
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Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corp., speaks about Windows 7 during his keynote address at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 5, 2011
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In a marketing tie-up with Microsoft, Burger King's 12 stores in Japan have launched the Windows 7 Whopper
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Former chairman of Microsoft and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates, second from right, is pictured in central London, on June 11, 2009, during the launch of ONE's 2009 DATA Report, which tracks progress on the G-8 promises to Africa made in Gleneagles in 2005
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Two schools were outfitted with Zune, Microsoft's media player, for a podcast project
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Dwarfed by a game screen, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer play Fight Night Round 3 as boxing announcer Al Bernstein calls the contest at the opening of the 2006 CES
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COMPETITION: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer flew to Brussels to make a deal
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Microsoft chief Bill Gates
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CNBC reports on the Microsoft ruling from the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York
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DAVID BOIES: From Microsoft to free music on the Net
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Bob Wallace, a Microsoft millionaire, funds DanceSafe, a prorave group that tests e pills for purity
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Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan, left, and chief executive officer of Microsoft Steve Ballmer
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CompUSA workers look at a display of Microsoft's new Windows Vista computer operating system in California, Friday, Jan. 26, 2007.
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PHONE BILL: Gates wants mobile operators to use Microsoft products
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