On the one hand, he noted that Microsoft has a long history of providing cross-platform applications. (You can run Office on the Mac, for instance.) And he also noted that you can run the limited function Web-based version of Office in a browser on basically any device at all, including iPads and iPhones, to read documents and do some light editing.

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To dismiss the world body out of hand, as some (read, American) critics do, is not just unfair, he argues, but also absurd.

ECONOMIST: The United Nations

Now, before you read on, do bear in mind that some of its features -- especially the OS -- may not make it to the final design when it comes out later this year, nor do we know what stage this prototype was at.

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Do you have a typographic logo that may be hard for some people to read?

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Here are some other takes on the issue that our politicians might do well to read.

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On the other hand, distilling a lifetime into a series of practical lessons has clearly pushed Mr Broad to do some hard thinking and self-analysis, which makes his book a useful read, especially for anyone engaging in entrepreneurship or philanthropy.

ECONOMIST: Uncommonly unreasonable

Some of you will have read that I was initially very reluctant to do that, and I was.

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Most disagreed with the notion that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to terrorists - even though none apparently had even read the conventions as some of us have.

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