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Microsoft To Invest Heavily In China

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-piracy-is-local-when-your-money-is-on-the-line dept.

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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  1. BSD is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:BSD is dead by IvanTheViking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Could someone explain to me why people keep saying BSD is dead? I know it's offtopic, no need to mod me that.