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REDMOND, WASHINGTON - Aiming to foil the advent of Linux and attack software piracy in emerging markets, Microsoft plans to expand its cheap Windows XP Starter Edition offer to more countries, a company executive said Thursday.

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REDMOND, WASHINGTON - Microsoft Corp. is looking to turn security from a "concern" into a "business asset" and "opportunity" for the company through software enhancements and management applications, the software maker's chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said Thursday.

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Microsoft Corp. is testing a Web-based MSN Messenger client that will allow users to connect to the instant messaging (IM) service without the need to install a client application.

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The next step in Microsoft Corp.'s efforts to delay or reverse anticompetition sanctions imposed by the European Union's (E.U.'s) executive branch comes on Tuesday in Luxembourg when officials from the software maker and the European Commission are set to attend an "informal meeting" with the president of the European Court of First Instance (CFI), Bo Vesterdorf.

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Microsoft Corp. will soon put some bite into its Sender ID antispam plans by checking e-mail messages sent to its Hotmail, MSN and Microsoft.com mail accounts to see if they come from valid e-mail servers, as identified by the Sender ID, according to a company executive.

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