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Microsoft asks China to stop piracy in state-run companies

article published on 22 September, 2012

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft has asked China to stop piracy in at least four of the country's state-run companies. The software giant has filed complaints against China National Petroleum (CNPC), China Post Group, China Railway Construction, and TravelSky Technology, each of which are run by the government. Supposedly, Microsoft believes that over 40 percent of Microsoft Office ... [ read the full article ]

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_ 		23. September 2012 @ 08:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is a country that pirated an entire automobile line and threatened to kick the company that created it out of the country if they did not drop their case against the "private" auto maker who copied every single detail with the exception of the name plate...do you really think they care about some pirated software when they are the pirates? The reps that claimed the numbers were "inaccurate" were probably telling the truth; the numbers are almost certainly much higher.
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Bozobub
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_ 		23. September 2012 @ 13:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have to agree. If 95+% of Chinese PCs aren't running a pirated version of Windows, for example, I'd be shocked.

...Of course, so am I ^^' .
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Clam_Up
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_ 		23. September 2012 @ 14:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Copyright Infringement on a national scale, and yet the software industry thrives.

hmm...
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_ 		23. September 2012 @ 23:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Buy.microsoft.com in China probably redirects to Buy.microsoft.ch...
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_ 		24. September 2012 @ 05:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
china might try and play nice for a while but they have the highest population a very powerful military and provide a huge number of everyday things people around the world buy and use.microsoft dont have the power and resources to stop china pirating there software.
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_ 		25. September 2012 @ 19:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
China stop piracy................LMAO
All I have to say...............
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