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Does Microsoft Need China?

Posted by michael on 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...'"

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  1. Re:It's Not Just The Price by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
    Taiwan province WAS, IS, and WILL ALWAYS BE part of China.

    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.