Microsoft Corp. is forming a group to build a new paid-subscription service for consumers, and restructuring a long-running development effort that had been viewed as internal competition for the company's popular Office software. The Redmond, Wash., company said it will build a new development team, dubbed Personal.NET, to develop a "premium" subscription service that includes elements of MSN, the company's online service. It also will offer some functions now found in consumer-software offerings such as its Encarta encylopedia program and Money, a personal-finance program, the company said.
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