Not celebrating the Black Screen move
When Microsoft noticed ‘misunderstandings’ among the Chinese public over its ‘black screen’ move to crack down on piracy, the country’s domestic software industry saw opportunity and couldn’t wait to embrace it.
A Kingsoft public relations manager said in Beijing there were currently up to 120,000 daily Internet downloads of WPS Office, the Microsoft Office-like software developed by Kingsof, compared with 50,000 to 60,000 downloads before the controversial Microsoft move.
Reject black screen, say ‘no’ to the threat, read an online advert inserted into WPS Office. It was evident Kingsoft seemed to expect a lot from this ‘opportunity.’
A sohu.com survey showed 43.58% of 144,133 people surveyed said they would not buy genuine software despite the black screen move.
Another 34.78% said they would try to seek free code keys to unlock the program.
Another survey at sina.com.cn showed 87.43% cent of therespondents, or 132,108 people, said the program would put them off buying genuine Microsoft products.
Much more on this HERE.
Source: Sify