China’s Vice Minister of Commerce claims that, following a nine-month crackdown, the country’s piracy problem has been largely resolved. American officials disagree. From Reuters: Marking the end of a nine-month...
Beleaguered Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told employees in Beijing that the company’s revenues in China are only a twentieth of those in the United States, despite similar PC sales in each of the two countries. Microsoft...
From Bloomberg: China was accused of piracy in a lawsuit filed by a California software maker, which said the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering program installed on personal computers in the country infringes its copyright....
A California software company is asking U.S. computer makers not to ship PCs with the Green Dam Youth Escort software, claiming that it contains pirated code from their own CyberSitter program. Maggie Shiels reports for BBC: A...
A court in China has convicted 11 people for pirating Microsoft software, reports the Wall Street Journal: The sentences, which Microsoft said were the toughest yet for this type of crime in China, ranged from a year-and-a-half...
From eFlux Media: In order to push the sales of its latest operating system and to combat the software piracy Microsoft decided to cut the price of Windows Vista in China. In a bold move, Microsoft reduced the price of Windows Vista as much as 67 percent. According to the company, from August 1, the […]
From USA Today (link): Lenovo, China’s No. 1 PC maker, on Monday said it plans an aggressive program to pre-install Microsoft Windows on PCs sold there. Last year, less than 10% of Lenovo PCs sold in China came with Windows, Lenovo Chairman Yang Yuanqing said in an interview Monday. After Lenovo launched a test program […]
From Bloomberg via Los Angeles Times (link): Microsoft Corp. said Chinese personal-computer maker Founder Technology Group agreed to buy $250 million of Windows software over the next three years as part of efforts to curb piracy. Founder also will help Microsoft promote the use of genuine Windows software, the companies said. See also “piracy statistics […]
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