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Microsoft turns to plumbers for business

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By our Odd Job Geezer
Wed Aug 10 2005, 16:28
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft wants to help plumbers to make more use of information technology and is holding seminars to show just how it's done.

That's according to a report in today's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, which claimed Microsoft will sell low cost hardware and software, and get the plumbers in to show them how IT can help their businesses.

alt='plumbing'It's going to target an estimated 70,000 plumbers and contractors in Japan by the end of this year, the newspaper reported. The mind boggles. ยต

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