Ballmer is Hu's official visit to noted that 90% of the users of Microsoft software in China, you will pay for it. Observations were part of the debate on the protection of intellectual property rights.
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Ballmer is the exact quotes had not been published, but President Obama discussed the Ballmer's concerns during a press conference.
White House transcript, Obama said:
"We have made progress with a view to ensuring that the Chinese Government procurement process is transparent and fair, the American companies. And we've made progress in this State as a result of the visit.
"Part is made in the field of intellectual property protection. So we were just around the corner from the famous business leaders meeting and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft observes that the estimate is only 1 of every 10 of those products the customer has actually paid to the people's Republic of China. And so we can better implementation, because that is the area where the American great-intellectual and industrial property, and value added products and services.
Windows and other Microsoft products, illegal include, but are not limited to, the economic threat to the enterprise fights regularly and Ballmer's comments have pointed out, the piracy rate is particularly high in the people's Republic of China. Users use pirated software of one consequence is that they fail to upgrade to a newer, safer versions of their software. Perhaps this explains why almost half of China's Internet users still use the 10-year-old Internet Explorer 6, instead of more modern browsers.
A Microsoft spokesperson did not respond to questions about how the company is calculated on the basis of software piracy statistics, but pointed out on Wednesday published posts on the Microsoft Technet Web site, a brief blog. The Post says, "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today joined several companies in the United States and China leaders meeting in the White House, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao. Ballmer highlighted the importance of the meeting of the intellectual property rights, or the success of Ip and economic development of both countries, and a serious IP piracy problems that currently exist in the people's Republic of China.
Obama, the US and the people's Republic of China, in detail, you take the help of Microsoft and other vendors, software illegal measures. "The Chinese Government has undertaken to improve its credit for intellectual property," Obama said. "We got the Agreement remain in full force and effect as a result of the visit to this State. And I think that President Hu would recognize that more needs to be done.
Microsoft long jealously protected subject-matter of the Patent Portfolio, which expands to all the time. Microsoft earned more than 3 000 new U.S. patents in 2010, behind only IBM and Samsung.
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