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Re:Ballmer to Hu: 90% of Microsoft customers in China using ... by ikuygtyuiouy on Friday January 21, 2011 @08:48PM (#2129649)
If I were the chinese I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to say -

"you're right we will introduce the death penalty for software piracy, ban the sale of imported software at below US list price - and we will put 100,000 programmers on a plan to produce OpenOffice for the people"

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Re:Ballmer to Hu: 90% of Microsoft customers in China using ... by moondowner on Friday January 21, 2011 @08:58PM (#2129672)
Actually, there's a Chinese fork of OpenOffice.org, it's called RedOffice. It also has a pretty good interface!

review: http://www.johannes-eva.net/redoffice-review

official site: http://www.redoffice.com/

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Re:Ballmer to Hu: 90% of Microsoft customers in China using ... by ikuygtyuiouy on Friday January 21, 2011 @09:27PM (#2129727)
I wonder what MS is offering in 'consultancy fees' to some government officials for that not to become a mandated standard?
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