Microsoft China is being looked at and responding to ambiguity

Absrtact: In the afternoon of July 28, the State administration of industry and Commerce raided the office of Microsoft Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, and is investigating the reasons for Microsoft's investigation. Microsoft's response is ambiguous: 1, committed to creating products to meet customer

On the afternoon of July 28, the State administration of industry and Commerce raided the offices of Microsoft Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu, and launched an investigation into "some things". Microsoft responded with "ambiguity":

1, is committed to creating products to meet customer requirements for functional, safe and reliable.

2, actively cooperate with the government departments of the investigation, and answer related questions.

Bans, people don't say you have problems with Microsoft's products (functional defects, the software has a safe backdoor.) ）

Be looked for reason to guess:

1. Monopoly. In February this year, Microsoft was accused of abusing its dominance to raise software prices and was under antitrust investigation in South Korea. Microsoft April 8 to stop Windows XP Upgrade security analysis System repair, has been the Chinese authorities to stare at. The State Administration for Industry and Commerce has also conducted antitrust investigations on Microsoft and Qualcomm's two companies, possibly starting a formal investigation into Microsoft's operating system monopoly.

2. Involving national security. Central Government Procurement Center issued a recent notice, said Windows 7 and Windows 8 share a set of product number, Microsoft This bid is the Windows 7,windows 8 is not listed.

3. May be gambling on business. In 2013, Microsoft was accused of paying bribes in exchange for software contracts, and in the same year, Microsoft executives paid for travel by Pakistani government officials to win office software contracts, which were investigated by Gome's regulatory authorities. In addition, U.S. regulators are investigating the alleged bribery of local officials in Russia and Pakistan in exchange for commercial contracts between Microsoft and its business partners.

4, the general "illegal" incident. Tax evasion, for example. In 2003, Microsoft Korea recognized tax evasion and paid millions of tax fines. In 2005, Microsoft and other tax evasion in Venezuela were ordered to suspend business and fines. In the 2013, Microsoft, IBM and Dell were checked for tax evasion in the UK. Earlier this month, Microsoft (China) was fined for exceeding carbon emissions in Beijing.

Multinational companies, come out sooner or later.

Compared with companies like Apple, Samsung and Cisco, Microsoft has been seen as "close" to the government in China. At least in the era of Bill Gates, Microsoft China has a "very good" relationship with the Chinese government. Compared with Apple jobs, Gates likes to "move around" in China's top brass.

In 2002, Microsoft became a member of China Software Industry Association and signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Development Planning Commission to jointly develop China's largest software external cooperation project, involving over 6.2 billion yuan, the largest foreign cooperation project in China in the software field.

In July 2004, Gates said Microsoft's relationship with the Chinese government was "very good" when he answered whether Microsoft was facing "antitrust" issues in China.

August 2, 2007, Microsoft announced to the Chinese government to open the latest technology and product source code;

Since 2007, Microsoft has been fighting piracy in China's business sector.

Microsoft, however, has been dissatisfied with its profits in China. Microsoft CEO Ballmer says the piracy problem has seriously affected Microsoft's gains in China, with a loss of $ billions of trillion. Microsoft has less than one-sixth of India's software revenues per PC sold in China.

Once hit the banner of "anti-piracy", raising the price of software, Monopoly market, the netizens were spurned. Lei has a mantra: "Before Microsoft, there is piracy, under Microsoft, barren." "Who would have thought that lei a golden hill did not do Microsoft, today, but with" a grain of rice "defeated Microsoft's Nokia mobile phone.

All indications are that it was only a matter of time before arrogant multinationals (Microsoft, Qualcomm, Cisco), with a market monopoly, were weak in innovation and, after being hit by local companies in emerging countries, were accompanied by a decline in profits and new problems that were constantly being uncovered and even withdrawn from the Chinese market.