Taiwan says No to Microsoft
p2p news / p2pnet: Taiwan’s parliament is demanding that the government slash purchases from Microsoft by 25% to, "end the near monopoly Microsoft has with local government offices," a legislative aide said, according to TechWorld.
"Local newspaper Commercial Times said however that the resolution may not be binding because it runs against fair trade regulations in Taiwan," says the story.
"The case highlights the battle Microsoft is facing in Asia, mostly thanks to the availability of open-source equivalents. Most recently, South Korean anti-trust regulators fined the company 33 billion won (£58m) in December for violating fair trade laws, and ordered it to offer two versions of Windows in the country."
Microsoft is also taking heat for cooperating with Communist China’s efforts to control its citizens’ use of the Net.
Meanwhile, Bill and the Boyz have just announced that China is the place for ‘research’ into finding new ways to get you to buy Microsoft product.
Also See:
TechWorld – Taiwanese parliament votes against Microsoft, January 16, 2006
taking heat – Microsoft yanks China blog, January 6, 2006
new ways – Microsoft Ad Lab in China, January 14, 2005
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January 16th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
“Meanwhile, Bill and the Boyz have just announced that China is the place for ‘research’ into finding new ways to get you to buy Microsoft product.”
Like what? Bombarding you with UDP Windows Messenger Spams on ports 1025-1029? When I run the analysis on my firewall log, I find that virtually all of that type of crap comes from China.
But then again, Microsoft is one of the largest senders of e-mail spam on the internet. It’s just that they call it ‘marketing’, ‘customer service’, ’security advisories’, or some other term from the business vernacular to legitimize it.
–TG
January 17th, 2006 at 10:43 am
“Like what? Bombarding you with UDP Windows Messenger Spams on ports 1025-1029? When I run the analysis on my firewall log, I find that virtually all of that type of crap comes from China.”
I don’t even see that shit. My firewall blocks all that crap coming in. I’ve been getting email spam that is in chinese. You would think that if someone was going to spam you, that they would at least send it in a language that you can read. Japanese on the otherhand, I have about 50-50 chance of understanding what it says.