Microsoft opened a software development centre in Canada in part because Canada's more liberal laws make it easier to recruit qualified people from around the world.

微软在加拿大新建了一个软件开发中心，部分原因便是鉴于加拿大有相对宽松的劳工法律，容许微软更方便地从世界各地招纳合格员工。

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In addition, Microsoft also released Web IM for Hotmail today in a number of countries, including the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Brazil.

另外，微软今天也发布了Hotmail的网页聊天工具，但只针对几个国家，其中包括美国，加拿大，德国，以及巴西。

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The deal is effective in the U.S. for all three companies, and for Yahoo and AOL (but not Microsoft) in Canada.

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"Bruce Shelly, codesigner of Sid Meier's Civilization , is involved in this project, so expect remarkable things from Age of Empires later this year, " babbles a sycophantic quote from Canada Computes on Microsoft's web page.

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Microsoft just announced that its Surface Pro tablet will go on sale February 9th in the US and Canada, with wide retail availability beyond just Microsoft.com and Microsoft Stores.

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