China and Microsoft

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The paper discusses that China is becoming more important as a producer of goods than as a market, and many overseas companies are using China as a manufacturing base. The paper outlines the impact on Microsoft: Creates new threats in the form of competing companies, provides a new opportunity for Microsoft to manufacture in China and the ability to manufacture cheaper hardware widens the market for Microsoft software.

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"The major point of the article is that China is utilizing its cheap labor well to become a popular manufacturing base. Many companies are creating factories in China to take advantage of the benefits. This gives these companies major cost advantage benefits. For a company like Microsoft, this trend is not a major concern since Microsoft is not a manufacturing based company. Microsoft derives its worth from its technology and its product development. Developing the software is the costly part, not manufacturing it. Microsoft also derives its worth from its specialist people. This means that cheap labor is not especially significant to Microsoft."

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