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The Empire Strikes Back - in China

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-no-agreements-at-all dept.

jaymzter writes: "Reuters is reporting that Microsoft is dumping $750 million into China over the next three years. According to MS CEO Steve Ballmer, "What's good for the local industry in every country is good for Microsoft", especially when that other country is actually promoting and developing home grown Linux. From the article it looks like MS is willing to overlook China's legendary software 'sharing' as long as the government stays tight with Windows."

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  1. Re:Good news/bad news by Archie+Steel · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I played Half-Life and paused twice in a row it did a reboot (Windows 2000). I've heard of quite a few WinXP crashes as well. Don't confuse "crashes less than Windows 98" with "never crashes". Oh, and regarding "current" Microsoft operating system: according to my weblogs, as many people still use Win98 and WinMe as Win2k and WinXP...

    All in all, Windows is still less stable than a well-configured Linux system (with a non-experimental kernel), IMO.

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  2. Peanuts... by burnsy · · Score: 2, Informative
    According to MS's latest financials it takes them about 27 days (they earned 27.5 million per day last quarter) to make 750 million in operating profit.

    750 million on China, 1 billion on the XBox, 2 billion on XBox live...its all peanuts.

  3. Re:But... by Alien+Being · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exactly. He's hinting at the old fallacy "What's good for GM is good for America". We see right thru you monkey boy.

    To see how well that GM theory worked out back then, take a look at this documentary:

    http://www.newday.com/films/Taken_for_a_Ride.htm l