Does Microsoft Need China?

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 7, 2004 @06:56AM from the great-wall dept.

angkor writes "Does Microsoft Need China? Interesting article from CFO.com's perspective on MS pricing strategies in the developing world: 'Put another way, Microsoft is relying on current pricing and a goodly portion of the world's tech growth to sustain its 31 percent net profit margins. But an increasing portion of global tech growth will come from Asia's burgeoning economies. And it's precisely in Asia--with China in the lead--that pressure to alter the uniform pricing structure for its software is the strongest in the world...'"

2 of 226 comments (clear)

Of course they need China... by IronMagnus · 2004-09-07 07:04 · Score: 5, Funny

What would M$ do without China to produce all of the CDs on which windows is distributed.
Mirror, Mirror on the wall by MikeMacK · 2004-09-07 07:10 · Score: 5, Funny

If you looked in the mirror one morning and discovered you were Bill Gates, how would you regard China?
Probably not the first question I'd ask, probably more like, what the hell am I going to buy today?