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12:46 9th March 2010
Just five months after launching Security Essentials, Microsoft has moved to increase the distribution of its free anti-virus and malware tool from 17 countries and eight languages to 74 countries and 25 languages.
"We expect to be in up to 83 countries and 33 languages by the end of the first half of 2010," said Microsoft's Theresa Burch.
Burch said the total number of downloads of the security software is more than double Microsoft's estimates by this time.
Commercial security software suppliers say they are not worried by Microsoft's move to ramp the distribution of Security Essentials because free anti-virus and malware tools do not have the support that the more significant business market requires.
In other news, Microsoft is poised to become the biggest research and development (R&D) spender in the world, the company's chief operating officer has said.
Speaking at the London School of Economics, Kevin Turner said that Microsoft will double its R&D spending to $9.5 billion in 2010, $3 billion more than its closest competitor in the IT sector.
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