The new Microsoft expansion of the Southeast Asian market development into untapped

U.S. Eastern time on January 1st (Beijing time on January 2nd) news: global software, services and Internet technology industry leader Microsoft Corp plans to maintain its dominance in the eternal development of the it industry.

Microsoft Corp's focus will focus on innovation, cooperation and acquisitions.

Steven Balmer, chief executive of Microsoft Corp, recently traveled in several Asian countries, and he has decided to visit Malaysia by the way.

In last year, 17 public universities in the course of his visit, he went to Kuala Lumpur in November 15th to implement the Microsoft Corp certification program.

He also announced that Microsoft Corp launched the first four language version of the Windows operating system for Malaysia.

He told a group of journalists in Malaysia said: "Malaysia's computer penetration rate is about 18%, we hope that the new multi language version of Windows XP Starter Edition can attract more people to use computers, especially the use of their own languages to use computer."

Microsoft Corp in 2005 to celebrate the 30 anniversary of the establishment of Ballmer said Microsoft Corp still has a chance to change the world.

Ballmer said that although Microsoft Corp's business growth and development in Southeast Asia has been very surprising, but it will continue to strengthen the development of the region. Moreover, Microsoft Corp can also enter the field before never involved.

For example, the goal of the Malaysia government is to allow 2 million 800 thousand of the non urban population to enter the IT era by 2008, Microsoft Corp will work closely with the Malaysia government to provide training and certification services.

Microsoft Corp and the Philippines government also launched a cooperation in order to improve their employment opportunities overseas Filipinos to provide them with IT skills training.

But in Southeast Asia, the most critical issue is still the issue of software piracy.

He said: "we will continue to prove that we can meet all kinds of challenges. Today, competition for open source, web services and software piracy is more intense than ever.

Piracy is a long-standing problem. But we think the situation has improved. We will continue to increase the value of the product, we will focus on products to provide more services or more features to help customers reduce costs. Moreover, some software products will be discounted sales."

Microsoft Corp's net profit in 2005 increased by 50% in 2004. As of June 30, 2005, Microsoft Corp's total revenue was $39 billion 770 million, net income of $12 billion 250 million. Microsoft Corp hopes in 2006 its total revenue can reach $43 billion 700 million.

In the past two years, the Microsoft Corp has and will continue to launch more new products, including Windows Live, Office Live, Xbox 360, Visual 2005, Studio SQL Server SQL Server 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006, Windows Vista and Office 2006.

Ballmer said in a media conference in Singapore in November 14th: "we have more acquisitions this year than in any previous year. In the past few months, we have acquired four to five companies."

And, recently, Microsoft Corp has just bought some shares of AOL Time Warner, but he declined to comment.

Ballmer also introduced the vision of Microsoft Corp in innovation and commitment to the Microsoft Corp in the next five years to make greater breakthroughs.

He mentioned a number of ideas, such as allowing the computer to accept voice commands, the user of the computer: "buy me a ticket from Singapore to Malaysia." Then the computer will complete the booking work as a secretary.

Ballmer said: "you can see some of the ingredients in our search engines, and you may see them in Office software in the near future. Its function is not perfect, but it will be a breakthrough innovation."

In addition, he also talked about the computer, games, digital voice recorder integrated with the idea, or refused to answer the phone call on the specified program, improve technology to eliminate computer screen flicker to encourage users to fully utilize the network such as the idea of reading the news.

Ballmer said: we are in the industry belong to the old company, but now is the best opportunity for innovation."