Microsoft said it will stick to its development strategy for the China Internet search market regardless of the outcome of Google's high-profile spat with Beijing
Microsoft Corp and Taiwan's economics ministry said they plan to set up a research centre on the island by next year
Earlier this year Microsoft and Yahoo signed a 10-year Web search partnership,a pact that US and European antitrust regulators are evaluating
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer does not expect to make acquisitions to help the company challenge Google's dominance in the Internet search market
Microsoft paid its chief executive Steve Ballmer 5.5 per cent less for the last fiscal year as company suffered its first ever drop in annual sales
