The
world's top software firm has seen few "concrete results" in an anti-piracy
campaign in the world's most heavily pirated market, but pre-conditions for
improvement were falling into place, a Microsoft Corp. executive said on Friday.
China has taken steps to root out piracy in recent months, spurred on by a
desire to create its own software industry and plans to enter the World Trade
Organization later this year, but its piracy rate still undermined Microsoft's
growth, the executive said. "We've done very well here, we're growing very fast,
but certainly one of the things that is holding our growth back and the rest of
the software industry is the intellectual property situation," Microsoft Asia
President Michael Rawding told Reuters.
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