Microsoft cuts down Chinese 'Tomato Garden'

Literacy Fail

"The Register asked Microsoft to comment on this story, but at time of writing it hadn't got back to us"

Let's hope they learn the difference between "piracy" and "privacy" before they do. Obviously used the Word spellchecker....

XP eh?

Just goes to show what's really popular I guess.

So wheres the $$

So if Chinese government (who is complacent and lets this happen) is forced to pay restitution, that would be about $2 Billion at regular windows prices......sure would put a dent in that trade "deficit" that we are running with that country.

Makes me really wonder if there would be such a deficit if China stopped its widespread social problem of IP theft???

And why exactly are they "Most Favored Nation" for the US in trading status?

I guess we award that right to the country who steals the most from us....

Lost in Translation? You sure?

“The judgement declares the collapse of China’s biggest online software privacy group [sic]. It is a milestone in the fight against online software privacy [double sic] in China,”

Perhaps this is just a blatant admission by (governmentally controlled) corporations in China that PRIVACY and PIRACY are one and the same to the descendants of the Emporer Mao, eh?

First we should get to the real point

Quit printing our US Currency. Who gives a rip about WIndows when they just print all the money they want...

Go Microsoft

The sooner you destroy all illicit copies of Windows the better off we will all be.

Say NO to pirated Windows!

I laughed so hard, the world blacked out.

So, Microsoft admits it's against Online Privacy, huh? Hoodathunkit?

They got that right

"It is a milestone in the fight against online software privacy [double sic] in China"

No, that is not an error. Given Microsoft's love of "phone home" software and their insatiable desire to control everything on your computer they are certainly engaged in a fight against online software privacy!

@ So wheres the $$

The disparity in piracy in China vs elsewhere wouldn't begin to put a dent in the portion of the nat'l debt that the US owes China. Nor would it come close to the trade deficit because the US makes very little the rest of the world is eager to import (software aside and let's face it the last thing we in the US or EU want is for China to start doing all their software domestically.

If they can made a widget cheaper, soon enough they'll be able to make quality software cheaper. Not that it would need to be any particular level of quality remembering we're talking about windows, but in the grand scheme of things the few years head start MS gained a foothold in the PC market could easily be erased with successive decades.