Microsoft: A Stone Pecked by Two Birds
The South China Morning Post reports:
Microsoft said it had slashed the price for Office last year Home and Student Edition to 199 yuan (HK$227) from 699 yuan. The promotion, which started on Monday, will last through next week’s National Week holiday.
The price cut is designed to make Microsoft’s products in the mainland more affordable [...]
Digital China Wants to Watch You
The South China Morning Post reports:
Digital China Holdings, the mainland’s largest distributor of information technology products, says a newly formed joint venture that starts operations next month will launch an initial public offering in a few years and bring in technology from its Israeli partner.
In July, Digital China said it would inject 500 million yuan [...]
Suing Microsoft: All Together Now
The South China Morning Post reports:
A mainland competitor of Microsoft Corp is urging a united front against the world’s largest software company for alleged monopolistic practices in the country.
Evermore Software, a developer of a productivity application suite that competes with Microsoft Office, wants to help a Beijing-based lawyer instigate a government probe into the United [...]
Microsoft Makes Ketchup
China Tech News reports:
Hong Lei, the webmaster of Chinese download website Tomatolei.com and writer of Windows XP Tomato Edition, reportedly has been taken into custody by the Suzhou Public Security Bureau.
Tomatolei.com was founded in 2003 and offers the download of the latest Windows XP Tomato Edition and also other useful software, as well as online [...]
Microsoft: The Pitter-Patter of Lawyer’s Feet
The South China Morning Post reports:
The Ministry of Commerce has accepted an appeal that claimed Microsoft Corp broke the country’s newly promulgated anti-monopoly law, a move likely to start an investigation into the United States software giant, according to the Legal Daily.
Dong Zhengwei, a lawyer with Tang Law Group, sent a letter to the ministry, [...]
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