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November 3, 2006

Microsoft Exits China -- Not

The "Microsoft may exit China" story yesterday should never have gotten an as much uncritical media play as it did. All it would have taken was spending a little time reading conference transcripts (which I did) at the Internet Governance Forum site to realize that what we had were two corporate reps -- from Microsoft and Cisco -- being beaten up relentlessly by wouldn't-it-be-nice Internet activists in a public forum.

An abused Microsoft legal sort eventually threw the crowd something, which he clearly didn't mean and was in no position to say, but the crowd (and the media) took it seriously. Wrong -- which is the point I made last night on CNBC.

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