China Trumps Up Anti-Monopoly Charges Against Microsoft

[Victorious Secret]

 

 

 

Everyone grab your popcorn, this one should be good. Some of you are probably frothing at the mouth at the idea that MS is going to get sued for "being a monopoly" (What is this, the 1990s?) But all that aside, looks like MS might have to suck it up and pay just so they can keep business going there, the Chinese market is huge and leaving isn't a decision to be made lightly. 

 

 

 

 

China's State Administration for Industry & Commerce on Tuesday announced it has launched an investigation into Microsoft under the country's antimonopoly laws, according to press reports.

The announcement comes days after SAIC officials reportedly raided Microsoft offices in four cities, seizing documents, emails and other data from servers and computers; copying the company's financial statements and contracts; and questioning some of its staff.

 

 

 

Why the SAIC's Mad

The SAIC investigated Microsoft's use of tie-in sales and verification codes in June of last year, it reportedly said. A preliminary inspection did not remove suspicions related to Microsoft's apparent anticompetitive activities.

Under the law, companies or individuals should not abuse their market dominance to exclude or restrict competition, and they should be supervised by the public, according to the SAIC.

 

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80808.html

[Vacsol]

There's GNU/Linux, there's FreeBSD, there's UNIX, OS X, etc

The only "monopoly" here is that they're the only ones selling their OS for profit

[Syntaxvgm]

So china, they place where the government probably even bootlegs windows, is now calling them out for being a monopoly. k den

[ShadowCaptain]

That is amazing Going to get this printed to canvas and hung on my wall

[Suika]

And I was just looking for a show to watch! This gun be gud.

[BonBon Scott]

Oh China. No, no, no.

[Mooshi]

China, the same nation that has the monopoly on making goods for many nations around the world? FFS I don't want my bloody Coca Cola glass being made in China.

[StingBull]

Windows might be on the computers of every single Chinese computer including the official state ones. That doesn't mean Microsoft holds a monopoly There is no reason why Chinese government not to make a decent enough Linux distro and use it in every state department.

 

Turkish government was suppose to do something like that (Pardus was the name of the distro) but I think the project fell through.