Le gouvernement Chinois enquête sur Microsoft China.
Les bureaux de Microsoft à Pékin, Shanghai, Canton et Chengdu ont été perquisitionnés.
Mais les raisons de l’enquête (i.e. ce que l'on reproche a Microsoft) ne sont pas claires
Source : South China Morning Post
Les bureaux de Microsoft à Pékin, Shanghai, Canton et Chengdu ont été perquisitionnés.
Mais les raisons de l’enquête (i.e. ce que l'on reproche a Microsoft) ne sont pas claires
Source : South China Morning Post
Microsoft China placed under official investigation as offices in four cities raided
Government investigators have been sent to the company’s offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu
Microsoft launches its Windows 8 operating system in Shanghai in 2012. Photo: AP
The mainland’s business authorities are investigating the offices of Microsoft Corp, the US technology giant has confirmed.
The State Administration for Industry and Commerce sent its investigators to the company’s offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu today for an official investigation.
It is unclear why the company is being looked into.
Microsoft China spokeswoman Joan Li confirmed that the company was being investigated and said it would “actively cooperate” with the government. She did not specify what the investigation was about.
In late May, the mainland announced it would ban government use of Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system.
At the time, the official Xinhua news agency reported that the ban was to ensure computer security after Microsoft ended support for its Windows XP operating system, which was widely used on the mainland.
Less than two weeks later, the mainland’s state-run broadcaster CCTV aired a strongly critical programme in which experts suggested Windows 8 was being used to grab information on mainland citizens.
Experts said the operating system posed a “big challenge” to the mainland’s cybersecurity efforts. They also suggested that Windows 8 was one of the methods that the United States’ National Security Agency was using to spirit data out of China.
Chinese officials have previously stressed that Microsoft should lower the price of Windows. They have also told local news media that the nation should develop its own operating system to reduce its reliance on foreign companies.
But the Chinese government has still been a major Microsoft customer.