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Microsoft Emphasizes the Real Deal

Aaron Back, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 23, 2009 at 10:22 am PT

Microsoft’s big launch of the new Windows 7 operating system on Friday in Beijing was much like its launches around the world: a huge, boisterous demonstration of new features such as being able to share music across multiple computers in one home.

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Google Books in China; Chapter Two

Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 23, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

In response to the recent uproar over Google’s digital library in China, Google initially gave a boilerplate response about its U.S. book settlement applying only to U.S. books, and that the company will “of course” listen carefully to concerns and work hard to address them.