Microsoft To Invest Heavily In China

abb_road writes "As part of Chinese President Hu Jintao's recent visit to Redmond, Microsoft is announcing plans to invest $900 million dollars directly in software and hardware companies in China. The announced goal of this investment is to reduce software piracy and establish Windows-dominance in the region; what's not clear is if they expect the reduction to come from local business pressure or more direct government intervention." From the article: "To now, Microsoft's investment efforts have made little headway in reducing piracy. The company should be booking about $1 billion on annual sales of some 20 million PCs in China, says Paul DeGroot, an analyst at consultancy Directions on Microsoft. Instead, sales there are about $100 million, he says."

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What?

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

what's not clear is if they expect the reduction to come from local business pressure or more direct government intervention.

Of course its going to be "more direct government intervention" - does the submitter think local businesses are going to pressure someone so they can pay a tax to a large foreign corporation?

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[omega9]

They announced earnings for the quarter and missed expectations.