Put that in your pipe and smoke it, O Siren of Redmond.
Geez...buy, rent or borrow a clue already.
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.
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.