Superpower: China’s Choices Echo Around The World (Information Week)

Today, Paul McDougall and John Foley wrote on the Information Week:

When the Chinese government makes technology decisions, it impacts businesses around the world. “China’s always wondering, ‘Are we going to have our own standards, or are we going to follow world standards?'” says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “And it’s one of the few countries that’s absolutely big enough to go through that kind of a process.”

What China will do about wireless standards and Linux are important tech issues for the rest of the world today.

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