Beijing: Microsoft, which will close his career-oriented social network LinkedIn in China, is one of the few Titans of US technology that has managed some success in this country.
The software giant has maintained its business to live in China mostly by compliance with strict local law, even though the sensor reaches the Communist State.
Here are some important points about technology operations and gaming groups in the second largest economy in the world.
A Pionemicrosoft arrived in China in 1992 and opened the largest research and development center outside the United States.
It employs around 6,200 people in China.
The Windows operating system is used in most computers in China – although Beijing promises in recent years to develop its own operating system.
The success of the company has a downside, however, because the software is widely hijacked.
The important Chinese market, which is very limiting for foreign companies, represents a decline in the ocean of Microsoft’s business, accounting of nearly 1.8 percent of its turnover, said President Brad Smith at the beginning of last year.
Microsoft Bing is one of the few foreign search engines operating in China – although far behind local competitors Baidu and Sogou, which dominates the market.
Bill GatesMicrosoft founder Bill Gates has long realized the success model in the eyes of many Chinese people and his books are the best-selling book in this country.
President Xi Jinping visited the company headquarters on the country’s visit to the US 2015, where he met Gates and his wife.
At present, as the Head of the Humanitarian Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates, the 65-year-old has a prestige of the head of state in Beijing.
In February 2020, XI wrote the Gates letter thanked for his support during the Coronavirus epidemic.
Sensors and Controlchina Sensors All subjects are considered politically sensitive on behalf of stability, and internet giants are urged to block unwanted content online.
Refuse to obey Beijing’s strict demands, Giants America Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, as well as Wikipedia and several other foreign media, blocked by China’s “big firewall”.
Not smooth sailing for companies, with Bing While taken offline in 2019 – encouraging search engine speculation has been blocked by sensors.
Microsoft operates its professional LinkedIn network in this country for years by complying with sensor rules through local joint ventures.
But on Thursday it announced it would close LinkedIn in China, quoting the increasingly “challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements”.
In March The group had said it had stopped registration of new members when reviewing compliance with local law.
LinkedIn has been criticized in this country because it attracts professional stories about dissidents – which are then said in errors – and scratching content that is politically sensitive from the pages.
Skype and Team – other two other Microsoft platforms – still available.
Video Gamesin 2000 Beijing stopped the sale of all console games because of the alleged negative impact on the “mental health” of young users, even though they were still illegally available.
After the ban was appointed, Microsoft in 2014 was the first foreign company to enter the video game market in China with the Xbox One console.
Also in 2014, the authority of the Chinese competition opened an anti-monopoly investigation against Microsoft and its Windows software.
About 100 inspectors stormed the group office in four Chinese cities, confiscated files and questioned employees.
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