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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In story at:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090122/bs_nm/us_microsoft">http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090122/bs_nm/us_microsoft</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It says at one point:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“Microsoft's shares dropped 9 percent, adding to a 40
percent decline in the past year. It blamed the miss on the weakness of the PC
market and the popularity of low-cost netbook computers, which have combined to
badly undercut sales of its dominant Windows operating system.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>And later:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>“Microsoft faces a shift by PC buyers to less expensive
netbooks, which are small, stripped-down laptops. Netbooks can run Windows, but
Microsoft makes more on each sale of Windows for a PC than it does for a
netbook. Some netbooks also use the rival open-source Linux software, which
further undercuts Windows sales.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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