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Microsoft swears by desktop

Software major Microsoft has come out in vig orous defence of desktop application software saying that preponderance of web-based services would not kill it.

Microsoft is the major seller of desktop operating systems and software in the world and has just stepped onto the terrain of web-based services. It is now promoting itself as a company which can do both.

Mr Jeff Raikes, president of MS business applications division, pooh-poohed theories floated by web majors that software was dying.

"Some our competitors like to espouse this idea," said Mr Raikes. "I think they're worried that actually people like a lot of what they have at their fingertips. Real success is to use a combination."

Microsoft is facing tough competition from Google, whose web apps are getting very popular.

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