I am in China and I havn't seen any Linux at all. All I have seen is Windows, and most of it is XP.
In the markets I have seen the entire office suite going for 10 Yuan (1 US dollar = 8 Yuan). This was not one of the little markets that we hear of being raided, this was at one of the largest chains in the country.
As far as Apples, I have the only one that I have seen here. In a stor with, literaly, hundreds of MP3 players, I saw one iPod. It was priced out of line with the local economy.
With this being the situation, I find it hard to believe that Microsoft will fail to dominate this market. There may be a small market for Red Flag, much like there is stil a market for SCO Unix; However, look in the stores, it is al Microsoft.
No, I was in a major market yesterday. MS Office and Photoshop cs (along with all other software) were still priced at 10 Yuan. At current rates, 1 USD = about 8 Yuan. A meal at KFC costs about 20 Yuan. However, a meal at a non-western restraunt costs about 3-5 Yuan and a typical family makes about 1000-2000 yuan per month.
So, the software is still available at very low cost. I am not much of a game player (I have long since given up on most computer games, they are just too hard and I can never finish them); however, I also looked at the price on the games, half life and some others, they are also all 10 Yuan. Now if I can just get a printer at a reasonable cost, I will be set.
The problem I am going to have in this next election is that I am in a place that I can not send sealed letters and evrything I send must be on the approved paper. I found this out after getting here. So, that only thing I can think of doing is to write to the county clerk and see what king of an exception I can get to the standard form.
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In the markets I have seen the entire office suite going for 10 Yuan (1 US dollar = 8 Yuan). This was not one of the little markets that we hear of being raided, this was at one of the largest chains in the country.
As far as Apples, I have the only one that I have seen here. In a stor with, literaly, hundreds of MP3 players, I saw one iPod. It was priced out of line with the local economy.
With this being the situation, I find it hard to believe that Microsoft will fail to dominate this market. There may be a small market for Red Flag, much like there is stil a market for SCO Unix; However, look in the stores, it is al Microsoft.
So, the software is still available at very low cost. I am not much of a game player (I have long since given up on most computer games, they are just too hard and I can never finish them); however, I also looked at the price on the games, half life and some others, they are also all 10 Yuan. Now if I can just get a printer at a reasonable cost, I will be set.
The problem I am going to have in this next election is that I am in a place that I can not send sealed letters and evrything I send must be on the approved paper. I found this out after getting here. So, that only thing I can think of doing is to write to the county clerk and see what king of an exception I can get to the standard form.