RSSLenovo to Spend $1.3 Billion on Vista, Office
By the Betanews Staff | Published May 10, 2007, 1:02 PM
Chinese computer maker Lenovo has inked a deal with Microsoft to buy up to $1.3 billion worth of Windows Vista and Office 2007 for the next year. A similar deal valued at $1.2 billion was signed last year, which was considered a big step toward fighting piracy in China.
Lenovo has been battling Taiwan-based Acer to be the world's number-three computer manufacturer behind giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell. In turn, the company has been forging closer ties with Microsoft, including a joint research center announced last month to be built in China. Details of the new Microsoft agreement will be finalized soon, the companies said.
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|Wow, that almost equates to $1 (US) per Chinese citizen. Who needs food when you can have Vista instead!
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|Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. Teach a man basic computer skills and he can man a tech-support line and use his newfound broken-english script-reading skills to annoy thousands. :D
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|Hahahaha!!!
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|they're obviously for office machines and schools and goverment offices and also for preload .. I'm just happy that microsoft is making more money in this sale then apple is for the entire last yr
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|I'm sure it's for pre-loading on the retail machines. If the machines have legit copies of the software, then that's one less pirated copy that will be seen in China. We'll see.
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|What are these buys for? internal? For machines they sell?
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