Microsoft expects little changes to R&D budget

SINGAPORE, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), the world's largest software company, does not big changes to its research and development budget for next year from over $9 billion it committed this year, a senior executive said on Thursday.

"The company remains very committed with R&D... I think it will be nominally the same, I'm not expecting any big changes," Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer told Reuters in an interview.

(Reporting by Harry Suhartono; Editing by Anshuman Daga)

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