As part of a legal settlement to regain control of 3322.org, founder Peng Yong has given assurances that he will work with Microsoft and China's central computer security agency to limit abuse of the site's domains.
That was up a respectable 16% from 2006, but it is less than half the sales that IDC figures Microsoft gets from China.
Michael Rawding, Microsoft's greater China regional director, maintains that critical views of his company aren't widely held in Asia.
In China, Microsoft's search engine Bing sounds like "illness" or "pancake" when spoken in local dialects, depending on the tone.
" Adds Liu Bo, a former Microsoft business director in China who jumped ship to run a competing software firm, Beijing-based Red Flag Software: "Windows is a good product.
Microsoft is expanding into China with a company-funded incubator program for outside developers to build products based on Kinect technology for a range of industries including health care and retail.
Microsoft wants to play in China.
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We brought home the gold for our cover depicting Microsoft's difficult entry into China.
One place where Microsoft has opened a research lab is China.
Microsoft has been investing and promoting itself in China for decades while Apple barely had any presence 3 years ago.
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Sure, there is plenty of action in India and China, where big boys like Microsoft, Citigroup and Intel have made deep inroads.
Just to cite one example, Microsoft maintains software development labs in India and China, facilities designed to help transfer technology and benefit the host country as well as the company.
Last month, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates visited Shenzhen in southern China to unveil the company's "Venus project, " software and hardware that allows VCD players and other consumer devices to display Chinese Internet content on TVs.
Last September, Microsoft announced the Kinect's availability in China, but the catch was there would be no Xbox 360 to go with the motion-sensing peripheral, meaning only the developers could make the most out of the sensor on a PC.
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Microsoft said it has identified three companies for the China program to run through June.
Microsoft also faced a stream of negative publicity in China after the company was accused of arrogance in a book written by its former Chinese general manager.
Microsoft has teamed up with ten manufacturers, including Legend, China's largest computer maker, to market Chinese Palm PCs.
Similarly, imagine that Microsoft is successful in reducing the pirating of Windows licenses in China, just as an example.
Microsoft has been trying for many years to bring XBox into China.
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Clearly, Microsoft needs to remain dominant in big markets like India and China, which are poised to become the largest PC markets in the world over the next several years.
No, the final winner may well be Microsoft, whose Live Messenger already has a solid reputation in China as a must-have app for business, overreliance on creaky submarine cables notwithstanding.
This summer, for example, we had students working summer jobs and internships in companies all over the world, in workplaces at Google, Microsoft, Cisco and Apple, at manufacturers in Australia, China and Japan, financial service firms on Wall Street and tech firms in Israel.
Companies include: The Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, DreamWorks Animation (DWA), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Pixar, ESPN, BSkyB, Panasonic, XpanD 3D, Dolby Laboratories, 3ality Technica, Masterimage 3D, RealD, IMAX, StereoD, National Geographic Cinema Ventures, CCTV China, Korea Telecomm, Intel, THX, Microsoft, Technicolor, Samsung, Sony Electronics, MobiTV, BluFocus, Walt Disney Studios, Eutelsat, Turner Broadcasting, Vizio and others.
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In a surprise move, China Mobile chose Lumia 920T, a phone based on Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Phone 8 over iPhone 5.
As of March 2013, Sood is responsible for leading Microsoft's global startups team, which includes startup accelerators in China, India, Israel and Seattle, and the Bing Fund based in Bellevue, Wash.
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The issue gained worldwide attention in September, when Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett travelled to China to persuade the super-rich there to donate more of their money to worthy causes.
America can sell Boeing airplanes, Microsoft Windows and the Disney-made Kung Fu Panda movie series to China.
Unlike in the United States, where the Microsoft chairman faces an antitrust suit and a legion of committed enemies, in China Gates is usually taken at his word.
Mr Li, from China's Chengdu province, targeted software from big manufacturers including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Rockwell Automation before selling them on to 325 buyers, including a Nasa engineer as well as military contractors.
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