Microsoft’s Ballmer Says China Piracy Is a Problem

Microsoft Corp. is less optimistic about China as a market than India or Indonesia because of the country’s lack of progress in stamping out software piracy, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said.

“India is not perfect but the intellectual property protection in India is far, far better than it would be in China,” the head of the world’s largest software maker said in an interview in Hanoi, Vietnam, yesterday. “China is a less interesting market to us than India, than Indonesia.”