Gates also revealed the addition of new applications to Microsoft Office, the company's dominant productivity software suite.

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The MS Office suite entails productivity software applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access.

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Moreover, while Microsoft's Vista operating system has received mediocre reviews, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant offers a host of tools, from e-mail software to its ubiquitous Office productivity suite, that will make it impossible to break Windows' lock on big businesses anytime soon.

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Microsoft Corporation , one of the biggest software companies in the world, makes money primarily via sales of its Microsoft Office productivity suite and Windows operating system.

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