Monday, April 24, 2006

Gates touts ties with Japanese

For Bill Gates, the key to business success lies in knowing your strengths and, outside those areas, in building alliances such as those <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6063725.html?tag=zdnn.alert">Microsoft is cultivating in Japan.</A> "The richness of what we have been able to do together with leading Japanese companies really is quite phenomenal," Gates told a news conference. The Microsoft chairman was in Tokyo to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the company's Japanese subsidiary. He also used the opportunity to get in a dig at IBM, which Microsoft has identified as a key rival.

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