Numbers: Microsoft in the Middle Kingdom
$3.7 billion Amount of money Microsoft has committed to spending on technology and investment in China over the next 5 years [link] 421 meters Height of the largest Windows Vista ad bought by Microsoft, projected on the side of the Jin Mao tower in Shanghai [link] $295 Price for a basic, legal copy of Microsoft ...
$3.7 billion
| $3.7 billion | Amount of money Microsoft has committed to spending on technology and investment in China over the next 5 years [link] |
| 421 meters | Height of the largest Windows Vista ad bought by Microsoft, projected on the side of the Jin Mao tower in Shanghai [link] |
| $295 | Price for a basic, legal copy of Microsoft Vista in China [link] |
| $1.30 to $4.00 | Price of a pirated copy of Microsoft Vista on the street in China [link] |
| 244 | Number of genuine copies of Microsoft Vista sold in China in the first two weeks after its launch [link] |
| 86% | Percentage of software on Chinese computers that is pirated [link] |
| 70% | Percentage of software on Chinese government computers that is pirated [link] |
| $3.8 billion | Estimated software losses to piracy in China in 2005 [link] |
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