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Microsoft to spend a half (b) billion to promote new business software
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NEW YORK Microsoft says it will spend 500 (m) million dollars to promote a new array of software and software services it's introducing over the next year.

The company showed off the products in various stages of development at a Manhattan hotel.

Chief executive Steve Ballmer classes the new products under the rubric "People Ready" software. They include a new version of the Windows Vista operating system, Office 2007 and new mobile software.

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