Microsoft only makes $1.25 billion in China per year

Waaaahhhhhhh!!!!!1

"The CEO says that number could jump to $7.5 billion if China had better piracy control."

That was a really dumb thing for him to say; people are going to get tortured and killed because of that...the Chinese government uses almost nothing but pirated software, yet they will use this as an excuse to arrest people and put them into slave labor camps.

it's not a Chinese company though so the government won't care what MS says.

Now if MS was to hand over the code base to a Chinese company to take over completely well they would be forcing and pushing for less piracy all over the world.

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Originally posted by xtago:

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it's not a Chinese company though so the government won't care what MS says.

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MS are being greedy.im sure the people in china that are over worked and underpaid have better stuff to spend there money on like food&rent.im sure the people working for microsoft are over paid under worked and have more money than they need.

Originally posted by hearme0:

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you and your freaking only $1.25 billion

It's a possible ruse folks... China holds a ton of US debt, who says they don't hold a lot of M$ debt as well. M$ coming out publicly and saying that they "potentially" (I love this shit of basing monetary gain/loss on pure hypothesis & the gov believes them) lose "X" amount then they just write that off their taxes; in whatever country their in and whatever other boarder they can.

Seeing as the world economy is globally screwed I don't doubt several Fortune 500 companies are trying this approach. M$ just happens to be a MUCH heavier hitter than the rest of the group.

It's one train of thought anyway.

Poor M$. How can they even get up in the morning just knowing that they are going to struggle for the day. Concerned about things like how will I get my meals for today, how will I get some water to drink, how will I get warm today and tonight, how will I feed my child, how will I get the medcation for my child and where will I sleep tonight....

Sod off M$, you are just plain outright greedy. Simple as that.