Beijing snubs Microsoft for homegrown coders Posted by Scott Manning on January 10, 2002 | Comments (1)

HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- The Beijing municipal government awarded software contracts to six local vendors, snubbing U.S. software giant Microsoft.

According to a Gartner research note, Beijing elected to support local vendors to provide operating system (OS), office automation (OA), and anti-virus software for government computers. Full Story...