Microsoft in China
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| So perhaps a question that might be worth asking is if Windows and Office
| only costs $3 in China, how sustainable are it's prices in other markets?
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/07/microsoft_in_ch.html
Microsoft offering Office 2007 for rent on a monthly basis
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| I’ve asked Microsoft whether it plans to extend this program and offer Office
| 2007 on a subscription basis in other countries. Stay tuned.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=582
Why don't they just use OpenOffice.org? Who is pulling strings? Why get
people's data trapped inside OOXML lock-in in the first place?
Related:
Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users
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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource.
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| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
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| "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
| people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
| As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
| They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
| collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html
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