| Author: | Forney, M. Fluendy, S. Thornton, E. |
| Title: | A matter of wording |
| Journal: | Far Eastern Economic Review
1996 : OCT 10, VOL. 159:41, p. 72-73 |
| Index terms: | TECHNOLOGY CHINA COMPUTERS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Microsoft moves carefully to shore up China business. It might sound harmless. But a delicate part of characters in the Chinese language version of Microsoft's flagship Windows 95 operating system threatened to scramble the company's long-term plans for China. Only through deft damage control has the software giant managed to head off a crisis. Things looked bad for Microsoft when Beijing officials discovered the phrase "communist bandits" embedded in the Windows 95 Chinese-character selection system which was designed in arch-nemesis Taiwan. |
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