Microsoft must stop selling products that infringe on the copyrights of a Beijing software company, the Beijing No 1 Intermediate People’s Court ruled on Monday.
In the ruling issued by the court, Microsoft was ordered to stop sales of products that used Chinese character fonts designed by Zhongyi Electronic Ltd.
The products targeted were Chinese versions of [...]
Microsoft Corp’s Chinese version of Windows 7, which will be released in October, will cost from 399 yuan (US$58.60), the cheapest Windows yet in China, the US-based software vendor said yesterday.
The Windows 7 Home Basic Chinese version at 399 yuan is 20 percent lower than the price of the comparable Vista version. The Windows 7 [...]
Microsoft Corp, the world’s top manufacturer of software for personal and business computing, is reportedly planning to invest US$1 billion in its R&D facilities in China over the next three years despite the weary economic situation worldwide, sources reported, citing an unnamed sources, as saying.
However, there is no official comment on this expansion plan. The [...]
Chinese game designers, whose clients often include big names such as Sony and Nintendo, are attracting venture capitalists who believe the multi-billion dollar sector can grow despite the global economic downturn.
China does not have a long history of electronic games, but in neighboring Japan, where Sony Corp (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Nintendo [...]
An official of Microsoft said on Friday that the company would take a more flexible pricing strategy in China to allow more users to afford genuine software.
Lin Congwu, a marketing manager of Microsoft China, thanked the National Copyright Administration for publicly expressing “understanding and support” for the company’s anti-piracy efforts.
According to him, Microsoft would actively [...]
Microsoft Corp, the world’s top manufacturer of software for personal and business computing, plans to invest more on R&D strength in China despite the weary economic situation worldwide, sources reported, citing Zhang Yaqin, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and chairman of Microsoft China, as saying.
Microsoft also mulls outsourcing more business to China though the company will [...]
