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Daily Debrief: Is Microsoft crazy like a fox?
Created: 07/18/2008
Video description: CNET News' Ina Fried joins Charles Cooper on the Daily Debrief to analyze Microsoft's decision to keep pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into parts of the business which have yet to contribute to the bottom line in a big way.

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