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DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Concerns that roaring demand for tablets and smartphones same Apple's iPad and iPhone module leave Microsoft in the dust are only overdone, Microsoft International's chair told Reuters.

"Devices are feat to go and come," Jean-Philippe Courtois, chair of Microsoft International, told Reuters at the World Economic Forum, adding that the consort was making advancement developing products in the paper arena.

In January, Microsoft said it would make a edition of its Windows operative grouping compatible with chips designed by ARM Holdings to establish a major proximity in smartphones and tablets.

Microsoft, whose Windows code powers 90 proportionality of the world's computers, on Thursday reported results that fell short of outsized expectations and unsuccessful to assuage investors that the fast spread of devices made by Apple Inc and smartphones and tablets that separate Google code would dominate the next form of computing.

Its shares were insipid after news results, despite news better-than-expected profit.

Even as bounteous profession companies much as chipmaker Intel, which has been criticized for having a weaker ambulatory strategy showed little signs of impact from the popularity of tablets and smartphones, long term concerns over the small but ontogeny facet of profession hit driven another PC makers' hit lower.

Courtois said the more critical conception of the aggregation profession business was darken computing, in which Microsoft has established a major presence. Cloud profession refers to the training of using Internet profession to advise computers and aggregation absent from desktops and into remote data centers.

"This is a unfathomable change of the scenario in IT over the terminal decade," he said.

More broadly, though Microsoft remained cautious about the future, it sees ontogeny coming from all regions. "We see some ontogeny across the concern both in matured countries and in emerging countries and that helps the IT outlay (outlook)," he said.

Still, investors hit chosen to pore their tending on the explosive ontogeny of income of smartphones and tablets, which propelled boosted Apple to progress Microsoft as the largest U.S. profession consort by mart continuance terminal May.

Microsoft shares, which hit fallen 3 proportionality in the trailing 12 months, hit sharply underperformed the Nasdaq, which chromatic 24 percent. Apple shares hit risen 65 proportionality in the same period.

Some analysts concord with Microsoft's view, stressing that the paper market, patch robust, is nowhere nearby the surround of the PC industry. Apple oversubscribed about 15 meg iPads terminal year, and 7 meg in the lodge success Dec 2010. Microsoft oversubscribed 300 meg licenses for its Windows 7 operative system.

Looking ahead, Courtois talked up Microsoft's Kinect technology, which lets video mettlesome players control operations with a gesture of their arms. Microsoft demonstrated Kinect to the world's noesis selected at the World Economic Forum.

Kinect could wage another boulevard of ontogeny as Microsoft explores panoptic applications of the profession in profession and business.

"We just did a analyse in the BRIC countries showing that 80 proportionality of grouping uncovering continuance in natural user interface, essentially opening up the IT concern to many more grouping in the future," Courtois said.

(Reporting by Kenneth Li; Editing by Mike Peacock)

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