MS中国大陆大部分“挤不出奶来”的人并不是投身向Linux,而是使用盗版Windows,不知道你是否听过Bill说过这样一句话: “China is a market that Microsoft had already been investing in. We've upped that a lot since then. As a percentage of our sales, though, it's tiny--well under 1%--and so even though it will double every year for the next five years, it's really only by taking a ten-year view that we can say it's worth the emphasis we're putting on it.
Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.”
翻译过来就是:微软早就在中国市场进行了投资。此后,我们的投资增加了很多。尽管我们的营销收入百分比非常微薄,只有不到1%,因此,即使接下来的五年每年翻番,只有看到十年之后,我们才能说我们对该市场的重视物有所值。尽管在中国每年有大约300万台电脑售出,人们却不为软件付钱。不过,总有一天他们会的。既然他们想要偷软件,我们想让他们偷我们的。他们将会因此而上瘾,这样接下来的十年某个时候我们就会想出办法让他们付账。 我们可以想象,对Windows的过度依赖必将导致中国软件产业和信息技术的下滑,其实金山WPS不是被微软挤兑了,而是被国内的盗版Office挤兑了。为什么国家正式颁布法令规定敏感部门严禁使用Windows,而应该使用其它内核(国产闭源内核或各种开源内核如Linux),这是为了国家阿。