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MS Plans To Cooperate With Chinese TV Maker

Posted by timothy on from the match-made-in-heaven-with-stars-and-report dept.

zhangyong writes "Microsoft has signed a strategic cooperation pact with China's top television maker Sichuan Changhong Electric Appliances (which claims to be the world's number-two maker of colour TVs, OEM for APEX, etc.), the official Shanghai Securities News (in Chinese) (in English) said on Monday. 'Changhong would receive advanced IT technology and software from Microsoft to develop digital TV sets and other high-technology products.' What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?"

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  1. ...In a PERFECT world... by VinceWuzHere · · Score: 2, Funny
    "What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?" Um, HELLO, quality will drop, bugs in software will increase exponentially as a result and Micro$fot will finally die from the burdens of this load and the world will proliferate with GOOD software.

    **wakes up from dream**

    1. Re:...In a PERFECT world... by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 2, Funny

      > It's not like mainland China TVs are known for their high quality and reliability anywqay,
      > they're aimed squarely at the "OMG I can get a 27" TV for $200!?!" crowd.

      For now. Ask your parent (or more likely, your grandparents). They can tell you all about when "Made in Japan" was a universal by-word for cheap, shoddy junk.

      Chris Mattern

  2. What Will Happen by rsmith-mac · · Score: 4, Funny

    What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?"

    Why, the phrase "Blue Screen Of Death" will take on a whole new meaning of course.

  3. What will happen when... by kunudo · · Score: 5, Funny

    What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?"

    Cheap + shit == Cheap shit.
    Funny, eh?

  4. What will happen... by XaviorPenguin · · Score: 1, Funny

    What will happen when low-cost labor in China (Speaking about the TV manufacturing and IT Technology) is combined with Microsoft technologies?

    Digital High Defination Blue Screens of Death?

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  5. MSNBC-Now I know what that acronym stands for by craXORjack · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft Now Backing Chinese

    Traitors!

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  6. Spectrum trouble? by Atario · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surely you mean Red Screen Of Death?

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    1. Re:Spectrum trouble? by Rei · · Score: 4, Funny

      You forgot to welcome our new Chinese-Speaking Paperclip overlords. :)

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  7. amateurs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just poured an entire six-pack of Coke onto my monitor. Spitting is for barbarians.

    1. Re:amateurs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      In fact, it was so funny that I filled my bathtub with coke and dropped my monitor and keyboard into it.

    2. Re:amateurs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah. I'm in a hurry anyway. I just tucked all my monitors into my car and am now off to the Coke factory.

  8. MS TV's by SeanTobin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Something tells me that the tv's will have mysterious failures of both the red and green guns after they have been deployed.

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  9. Not much difference... by tool462 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?"

    Since a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, it won't be much different from high-cost labor in the US combined with Microsoft technologies.

  10. Wait a minute... by GeekZilla · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Changhong would receive advanced IT technology and software from Microsoft..."

    But where is Microsoft going to get the "...advanced IT technology...?

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  11. owning a TV will never be the same by Grishnakh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unlike the old days, where you just unpacked your new TV, aimed the antenna, and turned it on, you now need to update your TV's operating system to Service Pack 2 as soon as you turn it on, in order to avoid catching a worm. Then you need to install antivirus software and a firewall. Lastly, in order to keep your TV working acceptably, you need to defrag it weekly, and regularly run software to remove spyware.

    Considering the crap on TV these days, it doesn't sound like it'll be worth the trouble.

    1. Re:owning a TV will never be the same by Col+Bat+Guano · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hmmmm. Spyware.
      So in Communist China, TV will watch you?

  12. The better question is... by DerProfi · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?"

    The better question is, "What will happen when Microsoft's technology meets China's total disregard for intellectual property rights?"

    The answer is, of course, "Hilarity ensues."

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  13. Color TVs? by Psymunn · · Score: 2, Funny

    which claims to be the world's number-two maker of colour TVs

    Silly Microsoft. Colour TVs are still experimental technology and will never take off. Far better for them to team up with developers of the tried, tested, and true, black and white televion set

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  14. cheap products which don't work as expected by Locutus · · Score: 2, Funny

    that's what you'll get from a combined MS and Chinese product. But isn't that obvious by now. ;-)

    LoB

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  15. My 2 favorite products. by bs_02_06_02 · · Score: 2, Funny

    MS Windows and Apex Televisions.

    I tell ya... there's nothing better than the $89 20" flat screen Apex TV I picked up for xmas 2 years ago. Fantastic picture, well-thought out remote, top quality product. Just like MS Windows.

    I'm kidding.

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  16. Re:Jeanne Dixon, stand aside... by mangu · · Score: 2, Funny
    finally a comment from someone without a tinfoil hat on.


    You mean that, if he had had his tinfoil hat on, then the Microsoft marketing ray gun wouldn't have melted his brain?

  17. obviously by louden+obscure · · Score: 2, Funny

    the BSOD will be replaced by a RSOD.

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  18. Is This A Trick Question? by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What will happen when low-cost labor in China is combined with Microsoft technologies?"

    How about this result:

    1) The labor will get more expensive as they get pissed off working on crap and demand better wages and better working conditions - such as NOT working on crap.

    2) Everything will be over-engineered and quality will drop through the floor.

    3) Security will become even worse than it was.

    4) China will nuke Redmond in retaliation.

    Oh, okay, everything is fine.

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