Microsoft is racist?

[Bush loves Jiang]

Encarta 2004 came with my parents' new computer, and since they had no need for the program, I decided to replace my aging Encarta '99 with it.

I read an article about Taiwan, and when I was done, I clicked on the "Further Reading" link.

Every single suggested source was written by a Westerner.

If that's not racial bias, I don't know what is.

[slackmaster]

1. Microsoft is a large US corporation

Looking at Taiwan from (pardon my major assumption if I've misread you here) a Chinese perspective would not be supportive of business interests.

More like socio-politically biased and not racial IMO.

[Bush loves Jiang]

2. I don't think so...

I doubt Bill Gates (or anyone at Microsoft) would want to express an overtly pro-Taiwan viewpoint if the damn company is trying to figure out how to get China to pay for software...lol

And I don't particularly want Chinese sources either: I want Taiwanese and Aboriginal sources.

[FDRrocks]

7. Bill Gates is retired...

I.E. he doesn't run Microsoft. Just a little nitpick. It's a common misconception.

[DuctapeFatwa]

6. "not supportive of business interests" sounds a lot better than racism

and calling it that will be more supportive of business interests.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

3. Asia is bypassing Microsoft anyway

India and China are becoming leaders in open source and have the resources to write their own proprietary stuff too. Microsoft is begging and bribing and pleading their way into the markets, but they simply don't have the advantages of the subsidies and monopolized markets there like they do in the US. MS will survive, probably as a strong and dominant player in many markets, but they will never monopolize Asia the way they have here.

Remember that dust-up about Redhat including or not including the Taiwan flag icon in the OS?

Sorry for being off topic, hope you don't mind ... :)

[Bush loves Jiang]

4. This is quite ironic...

I support the open source movement in China and India, but I also consider China's government to be among the world's most evil regimes.

Good thing I use Mandrake. :)

[TexasMexican]

5. I doubt its racism...

its just that they like the majority of the US dont care about the rest of the world or what they have to say.