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CAPE TOWN (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates Tuesday said there was an 80% chance the company's next-generation operating system, Vista, would be ready in January.
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He said Microsoft was investing $8 billion to $9 billion in developing Vista and the company's next version of Office, its key cash-generator. He said the company's software partners, in developing and adapting their own products for the two launches, would invest 20 times Microsoft's investment level.
Gates said he hoped the next version of Office would be ready in December.
The new Vista operating system will have speech and visual recognition tools and be backed by strong security measures, he said.
