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... Microsoft had offended the Chinese government by not outsourcing as many jobs as promised to Chinese technology vendors.

This helps to explain Bill Gates' fulsome praise of China's Communist Leaders.

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Learn to Speak Chinese

[x5452]

All we need is to have the Chinese inserting secret backdoors into the most prevelent operating system. The government should forbid this outright.

[benjaminjjones]

I challenge ANYONE to relate one positive experience with an Indian (or otherwise) outsource help desk computer person.</p>

WTF are these coporate people thinking?

[indthkr]

ping

[American Vet Repairman]

Future CNN report.

2012 Washington News Desk:
Pentagon and Department of defense systems have gone off line for the last 24 hours and are not responding to attempted repairs. It is reported that there are multiple worms that are disabling the system nation wide.
In other news China has just started Spring Naval Maneuvers off of Taiwan and has announced it will be launching several satellites over the next 3 days.

[dennisw]

Soon to be renamed TraitorSoft

[adam_az]

Good thing Microsoft is here to protect is from the ChiComs, huh?

ROTFL

[evolved_rage]

Maybe the internet will be safer if the ChiComms have easier access to our computers, and don't have to hack as hard anymore.

Moasoft. Thats the ticket.

[sionnsar]

Evergreen State ping

FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this ping list.

Ping sionnsar if you see a Washington state related thread.

[Golden Eagle]

Disgusting, but still far behind IBM and their transfers, including up to 10,000 at once.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-12-08-ibm-china_x.htm

http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:88713152&refid=ink_tptd_np&skeyword=&teaser=

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/24/business/ibm.php

Use Apple if you don't like Microsoft, I just have a problem with Linux, a freeware clone of Unix being developed by IBM that is the official operating system of the Chinese government.

[Ciexyz]

Kiss those jobs goodbye.

[clyde asbury]

IT sucks bump.

[gonewt]

It's just capitalism. How can you be against this?

/sarcasm

[adam_az]

The users of Microsoft's new China-based internet portal were recently blocked from using the words ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’ and ‘human rights’ in a move by the software giant to please Beijing.Other words that are not permitted on Microsoft China's free online blog service, MSN Spaces, include: ‘Taiwan independence’ and ‘demonstration’.

If a user attempts to post one of these words in his blog, he would recieve the following message: "this item should not contain forbidden speech such as profanity. Please enter a different word for this item".

Microsoft has already been critisized for working with the Chinese government in an attempt to censor the internet.

Microsoft has already been critisized for working with the Chinese government in an attempt to censor the internet.

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=28937&category=main

[adam_az]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4088702.stm

Chinese bloggers posting their thoughts via Microsoft's net service face restrictions on what they can write.

Weblog entries on some parts of Microsoft's MSN site in China using words such as "freedom", "democracy" and "demonstration" are being blocked.