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Inference Corp. (El Segundo, Cal.) has entered into a joint agreement with software giant Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, Wash.) that will enable Microsoft to leverage Inference's casebased reasoning technology and engineering services in future versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Inference's client/server, objectoriented, 32-bit technology will be used for intelligent user assistance as a component of Windows. Bank Bandeirantes (Sao Paulo, Brazil) has teamed up with another Brazilian company, Software Marketing International, to develop SISCRED, a credit analysis expert system that operates in real-time. The intelligent system has helped the bank experience dramatic gains in development productivity. The bank anticipates deploying the system in all 100 Brazil offices.