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A French start-up is joining forces with Microsoft to enlarge its innovative multiplatform datas and services engines to .Net environment.

Microsoft France's support scheme for start-ups has begun its second year, with success at just one of the 25 companies it has helped covering the costs of the programme over two years. And now Microsoft’s subsidiaries in Germany and the UK are joining in.

Microsoft has stepped up its courtship of the international research community with the publication of an investigation of how computer science will underpin scientific discovery in the next 15 years.

Microsoft is to open more research centres in Europe, in a move to step up its research collaboration and boost students' interest in the technology field.