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Ironical MSFT and FB are fawning over Xi's visit giving him the royal tours. China treats these two companies very poorly. Nearly all MSFT software in China is
by peter303 11y ago
Ironical MSFT and FB are fawning over Xi's visit giving him the royal tours. China treats these two companies very poorly. Nearly all MSFT software in China is pirated. China bans FB partly for censorship and partly to protect internal social networking products.
- huac 11y agoYes, so perhaps as a result, China will be more favorable to MSFT and FB.
- wsterling 11y agoMSFT and FB want to maintain and increase access to the 1.35 Billion people of China. Not ironic at all, those companies need to be in China even if treated poorly.
- happyscrappy 11y agoExcept Google. But standing on principle is pricey.
- prewett 11y agoFacebook is completely blocked in China, as far as I'm aware. In fact, it's not just blocked, a DNS lookup of facebook.com is returns a bogus IP address. I can't see why Facebook would think that they have any hope of getting unblocked, unless they are willing to let China's censors do their thing with Facebook posts.
- happywolf 11y agoMS technically has ability to shut off and cripple any pirated Windows over the wire if it wants to. But in this case, it has chosen not to for a lot of Asian countries. The reason? Market share. It wants users to get used to how Windows works, versus to other alternatives like Linux, Mac, etc.
- tellthetruth1 11y agoFreemium model.
- imglorp 11y agoGood observation. MS is willing to pay a high price for market share. For example, nobody wanted Windows Mobile, so they paid Nokia to install it. Failing that (<4% mkt share), they bought Nokia. X-Box is another product they're paying customers to take, in exchange for living room share. It's lost billions overall since its beginning.
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