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Ballmer Defends Microsoft In China

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the race-is-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mr. Ballmer has recently posted on the official Microsoft blog discussing future business in China and defending Microsoft's stance of cooperating with the government even as other large IT companies have begun making public condemnations (Google and Twitter being the most prominent). Couple this with Bill Gate's speech on China's censorship being not all that bad (a speech very well received by Chinese media) and you've got people wondering: Is Microsoft aiming to take Google's place in China?"

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  1. Ubuntu's alignment with MS's search engine by JohnFluxx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wonder if this will have any impact Ubuntu's recent announcement that they are switching to use Yahoo (which is Microsoft Bing underneath) as the default search engine in their next release.

  2. Re:I don't buy it. by Yaa+101 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The Chinese government is one big cesspool of nepotism, ask many Chinese that were actually deported because their house was on a spot that was lucrative to the sons and daughters of the communist party officials.

    China will break into a large and long lasting civil war sooner or later.