This helps to explain Bill Gates' fulsome praise of China's Communist Leaders.
All we need is to have the Chinese inserting secret backdoors into the most prevelent operating system. The government should forbid this outright.
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?
ping
Soon to be renamed TraitorSoft
Good thing Microsoft is here to protect is from the ChiComs, huh?
ROTFL
Moasoft. Thats the ticket.
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.
Kiss those jobs goodbye.
IT sucks bump.
It's just capitalism. How can you be against this?
/sarcasm
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
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.