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Aging Microsoft lures young tech idealists

A worker helps prepare the Microsoft stand the

Photo credit: Getty Images | A worker helps prepare the Microsoft stand the day before the CeBIT 2012 technology trade fair in Hanover, Germany. (March 5, 2012)

The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business and design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to describe their summer employer.

Fun. Cool. Special. A giant start-up. Revolutionizing the world. Facebook, perhaps? Or Twitter? Or Google?

Try Microsoft Corp: the company once derided as the "death star" of the technology business and lately thought of not...

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