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China’s second-largest PC manufacturer Founder Technology Group will work to promote the use of authentic editions of Windows XP and other Microsoft products, Microsoft said Wednesday in a statement.
The deal is worth $250 million to Microsoft over the next three years, as Founder purchases licenses for simplified Chinese editions of Windows XP, the statement said.
The announcement comes as part of a drive by Chinese PC manufacturers to ship genuine Windows on their machines. On Apr. 6, Tsinghua Tongfang of Beijing, China’s number three PC maker, and TCL Corp., also agreed to use legitimate software. China’s largest PC manufacturer, Lenovo, signed the same agreement with Microsoft in November 2005.
The moves came ahead of and after the meeting of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) in Washington, which was Tuesday. The U.S. side has made intellectual property issues a top priority for the talks.
— Steven Schwankert (IDG News Service)
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