Ballmer Defends Microsoft In China

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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Re:i will remember this

[Colonel Korn]

that's just immoral. up to now i had mostly technical reasons i disliked microsoft. now, i have stonger ethical and moral reasons as well. i won't forget. that's just bordering on treason.

I'm sort of with you, but remember that Google hasn't done anything about leaving China - they've made a public statement that they might leave and then done nothing while it's been pointed out that their Chinese revenues are almost zero. For now, judging by their actions, Google and MS are in the same boat.