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NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft Corp. plans to give its paying customers more access to the underlying software code for its Windows operating systems, but still rejects the business logic behind Linux and other programming codes that are freely available to all.

In a speech Thursday to a class of graduate business students, a top Microsoft strategist outlined a series of vague announcements on new efforts by the company to share parts of its Windows code - mostly for paying customers and business partners.

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