Microsoft and Japan to focus on language technology</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Microsoft and Japan to focus on language technology"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Microsoft,and,Japan,to,focus,on,language,technology"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">29-06-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Microsoft and Japan to focus on language technology</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_jJZkNHJS8jzgIeaOKPJ2_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tokyo, Japan (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is bolstering its joint research with Japanese universities, targeting such areas as security and natural language processing. Bill Gates said he hoped the joint research would yield results in the areas of security, natural language understanding, speech recognition and user interface software. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-06-28T072533Z_01_N28338185_RTRIDST_0_TECH-MICROSOFT-DC.XML " target="blank">today.reuters.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2005-06-28T072533Z_01_N28338185_RTRIDST_0_TECH-MICROSOFT-DC.XML </a> <br><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062800430.html " target="blank">www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/AR2005062800430.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show