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LOS ANGELES Microsoft Corp. on Monday released a version of its OneNote note-taking software for Macs and added new features and a free tier for all of the softwares users in moves clearly targeted at up-and-coming productivity software rivalEvernote.

The moves offer more consumers a taste of its Office 365 suite of software, which normally costs $99 a year. The free version of OneNote keeps some functions that give it an edge over the free tier of Evernote, including offline access to notes and the ability for multiple people to work on the same notesimultaneously.

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LOS ANGELES Microsoft Corp. on Monday released a version of its OneNote note-taking software for Macs and added new features and a free tier for all of the softwares users in moves clearly targeted at up-and-coming productivity software rivalEvernote.

The moves offer more consumers a taste of its Office 365 suite of software, which normally costs $99 a year. The free version of OneNote keeps some functions that give it an edge over the free tier of Evernote, including offline access to notes and the ability for multiple people to work on the same notesimultaneously.

New Microsoft users also get 7 gigabytes of free online storage through its OneDrive cloud storage service. Free Evernote users are limited to uploading 60 megabytes of data per month. Evernotes premium users, who pay $45 a year, can upload 1 GB of data permonth.

SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo is getting another lift from its stake in Chinas Alibaba Group, a thriving Internet company that has helped mask Yahoos own financialfunk.

Investors latched on to Yahoo on Monday in anticipation of a huge windfall from Alibabas initial public offering of stock later this year. Alibaba triggered the latest wave of excitement about its forthcoming IPO with a Sunday announcement of its intention to list its stock on a U.S. exchange instead of in Hong Kong. The precise timing of the IPO is still unclear, although the documents for the filing are expected to be filed within the next sixmonths.

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Business briefs: Microsoft announces OneNote upgrades - Tue, 18 Mar 2014 PST