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Did they ever start getting license revenue from China? I've had a few recent interactions with Chinese businesses that suggest piracy is still rampant and sham
by jjoonathan 6y ago
Did they ever start getting license revenue from China? I've had a few recent interactions with Chinese businesses that suggest piracy is still rampant and shameless.
- kalleboo 6y agoThey're probably still better off than if they clamped down on piracy and China decided to develop a competitor to Windows and switched to that
- cies 6y agoChina did, it's (was) called Red Flag Linux. It's shut down now. I believe this product was mainly a tactic to get the Chinese gov't a better position in negotiating deal with MS (probably regarding both cost and access to backdoors).
- egsmi 6y agohttp://www.chinagoabroad.com/en/article/microsoft-s-cloud-computing-services-growing-sky-high-in-china http://www.chinagoabroad.com/en/article/microsoft-s-cloud-co... "A survey conducted by Forrester Research earlier this month showed that Microsoft has already become the country’s second-biggest cloud services provider, with its Office 365 and Azure platforms." Looks like the subscription model did the trick.