[Prime Choice]

Microsoft thrives in Communist China...especially since it suppresses words like "freedom," "democracy," and so on. All with Microsoft's blessing, I might add.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, O Siren of Redmond.

Geez...buy, rent or borrow a clue already.

[softwarecreator]

Microsoft thrives in Communist China...especially since it suppresses words like "freedom," "democracy," and so on. All with Microsoft's blessing, I might add.

To be fair, could you supply a list of companies that are refusing to do business with China because of it's politics?

To blame ONLY Microsoft is pretty ridiculous.  The life expectancy of a CEO of a major corporation, who refuses to do business in a country with as many potential buyers as China, would be pretty short.

[Golden Eagle]

Wrong, China has policies in place that could have all MS products banned in the government NLT 2010.

http://asia.cnet.com/news/software/printfriendly.htm?AT=39146335-39001094t-39000001c

China Blocks Foreign Software Use in Government

A new policy by China's governing body will rule that all ministries buy only locally-produced software at the next upgrade cycle.

The move by the State Council is aimed at breaking the dominance of U.S.-based Microsoft on desktop computers, will eliminate Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite from hundreds of thousands of Chinese government computers in a few years' time.