Microsoft executives have indicated repeatedly that the company intends to stay in China and compete aggressively for the search and cloud-computing markets, despite some recent controversy in which Google briefly threatened to end its operations in China. Both Microsoft and Google lag behind homegrown Chinese search engine Baidu in that market, considered one of the world’s fastest-growing. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Google CEO Eric Schmidt have reaffirmed their commitment to human rights within the context of doing business in China.
– A Microsoft executive indicated that the company plans to stay the course in
China, despite
the recent dispute between Google and the Chinese government that saw the
search engine giant threatening to pull its operations out of the country.
quot;Regardless of whether or not Google stays, we wi…