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January 13, 2008

MS Office leader retires

The third longest-tenured employee of Microsoft is retiring later this, the NY Times reports. Jeffrey Raikes started on a farm in Nebraska and that's where he's returning. Before joining Microsoft in 1981, he worked at Apple. Mr. Raikes said that Microsoft understood that software would be a large business in a way that Apple did not.

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3 investment pros are staying the course.

USA Today: How some pros are managing their 401(k)s. The three say they are making no changes, but they are diversifying into real estate or health care funds.

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