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China asks MicroSoft to extend Windows XP "to fight software piracy" !
Here is something you won't see our government do:
China says it wants Microsoft to extend support for Windows XP because that will help it in its fight to stop proliferation of pirated Microsoft software.
A report from TechWeb written in Chinese says the release of Windows 8 means a substantial increase in the selling price of a Windows operating system, especially in light of the upcoming end-of-life of Windows XP, which is still used by a large percentage of Chinese.
According to a Google translation of the report, “the customer cannot purchase the applicable operating system; Win8, and a substantial increase in selling prices, increased user software procurement costs.” Terminating support for XP will pose security threats to users, according to Yan Xiaohong, deputy director of China’s National Copyright Administration.
A report from TechWeb written in Chinese says the release of Windows 8 means a substantial increase in the selling price of a Windows operating system, especially in light of the upcoming end-of-life of Windows XP, which is still used by a large percentage of Chinese.
According to a Google translation of the report, “the customer cannot purchase the applicable operating system; Win8, and a substantial increase in selling prices, increased user software procurement costs.” Terminating support for XP will pose security threats to users, according to Yan Xiaohong, deputy director of China’s National Copyright Administration.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/120313-windows-xp-china-276547.html?hpg1=bn
And China is asking this of a company who famously emailed their engineers to remind them: we want "to put the customer on a treadmill and force feed them upgrades." Meanwhile our politicians are busy putting MicroSoft in charge of our school systems. The Chinese government uses its leverage to try and get something reasonable while ours puts the fox in charge of the hen house.
In a related story this week, MicroSoft is now abandoning the Darwinian system they forced onto our schools:
So let me get this straight. The big business method of evaluation that now rules our schools is no longer the big business method of evaluation? And collaboration and teamwork, which have been abandoned by our schools in favor of the big business method of evaluation, is in?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-morris/whats-good-for-microsoft_b_4345349.html
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... intellectual property rights are highly cherished.
I mean, have you ever, ever seen or heard of any Chinese pirated software...on Ebay or on a torrent file? 
