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China Gives Microsoft 20 Days To Respond To Competition Probe

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the explain-yourself dept.

An anonymous reader writes "China has given Microsoft three weeks to explain "compatibility issues" in Windows and Office that could violate Chinese competition laws. The State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) questioned Microsoft Vice President David Chen and gave the company a deadline to make an explanation, the agency said in a short statement on its website. Microsoft's use of verification codes also spurred complaints from Chinese companies. Their use "may have violated China's anti-monopoly law", the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday."

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  1. Free market escapades! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    China is more concerned about free economics than the US? Weird.

    1. Re:Free market escapades! by ruir · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Or are they more concerned about updating thousands or billions of pirated Microsoft workstations? They could at least use it as an opportunity to promote their version of Linux.

  2. Chinese angry about verification codes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apparently just having the .iso file should be good enough. If Microsoft products can't be easily pirated, then China is pissed.

  3. Re:And well they should. by Dishevel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I use Open Office daily at work. We have many PCs running open office here. I allow MS Office on one computer at the office for fuckwads that can not figure out how to not send us DOCX. Works great.

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