Numbers: Microsoft in the Middle Kingdom

Thu, 04/19/2007 - 9:22am
Vista China
$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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