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Lenovo to Spend $1.3 Billion on Vista, Office

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

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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By DWrrixon

edited May 18, 2007 - 11:34 AM

Thanks we are always interested in technological news stories from China at dnlocal.com.

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By rsx508

edited May 10, 2007 - 7:57 PM

Wow, that almost equates to $1 (US) per Chinese citizen. Who needs food when you can have Vista instead!

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By PC_Tool

edited May 11, 2007 - 8:56 AM

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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By Mystiqq

posted May 12, 2007 - 10:50 AM

Hahahaha!!!

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By phenomnaruto

posted May 10, 2007 - 4:26 PM

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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By frankwick

posted May 10, 2007 - 3:38 PM

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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By mjm01010101

posted May 10, 2007 - 2:47 PM

What are these buys for? internal? For machines they sell?

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