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Microsoft's intense pursuit of Yahoo was widely seen as an acknowledgment of weaknesses in Microsoft's solo Web search and advertising strategy, and the software maker now needs to prove it can innovate without Yahoo as a partner.
Gates makes periodic trips to Asia, and he was in Japan two years ago. He said he met with business partners in Japan, which he sees as an important market. Talks covered digital broadcast software for Windows-based personal computers and giving free downloads of Microsoft software to Japanese students.
Possible partners for Microsoft in the future might include large Internet companies such as Time Warner Inc.'s AOL and News Corp.'s MySpace and promising startups such as Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp.
Microsoft already owns a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook, the second-largest social network behind MySpace.
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