Microsoft: 2007 China sales to rise 20 percent
Software giant Microsoft said on Tuesday it expects its China sales to rise more than 20 percent this year, boosted by new products and a national crackdown on software piracy. It will be interesting to see if they can hit this mark and if they do I doubt it has anything to do with cracking down on software piracy.
Reflecting the trend, only about 30 percent of Lenovo PCs now being sold will ultimately contain pirated Windows systems, down sharply from 90 percent last year, said Timothy Chen, chief executive officer of Microsoft’s greater China region. “We’ve made great progress there,” he told Reuters on the sidelines of an event in Taipei. China is the world’s second-largest PC market by unit sales, with more than 20 million units shipped last year, according to data tracking firm IDC.
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