Steve Ballmer does not think China important
In Australia, where this is being written today, Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer, the global head of Microsoft, dismissed China’s importance to Microsoft. He said it was due to the Government’s failure to curb rampant software piracy.
Speaking at a luncheon Steve Ballmer said Microsoft wasn’t interested in the Chinese PC market despite recently predicting it would soon become the world’s largest.
He said, ‘China’s not really very important to our business right now. I’d like it to be but it’s not because of the high rate of piracy of intellectual property. We need some IP reform in China for it to be important to our financial results.
‘China is the second largest consumption market for PCs. There’ll be 48 million PCs bought in China this year and that compares to say 4.5 million in Australia.’
And then, to finish off his act, he wandered into the beam and crashed the first demonstration of a high-speed download mobile device, which stalled in front of hundreds of media, analysts and shareholders. It stalled when Steve Ballmer was said to have obstructed the modem transferring the information. Luckily, it did not display a black screen.
Suggestions that he would have been better fitted to a career in the Diplomatic Corps should be ignored.
Source: The Australian