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Does Microsoft Need China?
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...'"
The low price growth in China is finally starting to slow, but profit margins are continuing to rise. Companies like SINA Corp have profit increases of nearly 350% for this year alone. China is an inevitable sector of growth in the world economy, which may change a lot of global commerce in the coming years. However, those who have got in early have benefitted greatly. Recent stock analysis on companies like SINA are still looking to much brighter futures, which can only increase profit for Microsoft.
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artlu.net
That's seems wrong.
- From 300AD to 1600AD, it was mostly a Malay-Polynesian colony (the Taiwanese Aborigines)
- From about 1590 to 1600 it was almost portuguese, and then dutch
- The Dutch were expelled by Cheng Ch'eng-kung in 1661.
- In 1895 Taiwan was ceded to the Japanese Empire.
- For a couple years after WW2 and before it had its own government it was part of china.
So if you go back a little into history, you'll see that Taiwan is Malay, or if you look more recently it's either Japanese or independant.Please tell what history you see that tells otherwise.