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Timo Ihamuotila (from left), new CEO of the Finnish mobile phone company Nokia; Risto Siilasmaa, the company's board chairman; and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop participate in a press conference in Espoo, Finland, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, to discuss Microsoft's takeover of Nokia in a deal reported to be worth some 5.44 billion euros ($7.2 billion). (AP Photo/LEHTIKUVA, Markku Ulander)

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South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, shakes hands with Microsoft founder Bill Gates before their meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool)

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Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 8, hit the market in late October and was supposed to make laptops cool again. It's failed to do so thus far. (PRNEWSFOTO)

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** FILE ** Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Bill and Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex on the UT campus in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, March 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Statesman.com, Jay Janner)

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Attendees check out some of the new devices coming to market with Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 8, at a launch event at Pier 57 on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 in New York City. (Jason DeCrow/AP Images for Microsoft)

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Microsoft program manager Joseph Morris, sporting a pair of company temporary-tattoo logos on his face, looks on during an event unveiling a new Microsoft Windows operating system Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)