Microsoft Says Bing is Restored in China (venturebeat.com) 21
Roughly a day after users in China began complaining that they were unable to access Bing, stoking fear that perhaps Microsoft's search engine is joining the long list of services that will not be permitted by the local government, Microsoft says it has fixed the situation. From a report: Bing is accessible in China again. In a statement, a Microsoft spokesperson said, "We can confirm that Bing was inaccessible in China, but service is now restored." Microsoft did not offer an explanation for Bing's outage, but in a televised interview with Fox News at the World Economic Forum, company president Brad Smith addressed the matter. He noted that this is not the first time Bing has faced an outage in China. "It happens periodically."
He added, "You know, we operate in China pursuant to some global principles that's called the Global Network Initiative in terms of how we manage censorship demands and the like. There are times when there are disagreements, there are times when there are difficult negotiations with the Chinese government, and we're still waiting to find out what this situation is about."
He added, "You know, we operate in China pursuant to some global principles that's called the Global Network Initiative in terms of how we manage censorship demands and the like. There are times when there are disagreements, there are times when there are difficult negotiations with the Chinese government, and we're still waiting to find out what this situation is about."
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Yeah, I know China has the world's biggest market for these things, but I certainly blame companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple et al for being willing to operate in China. Reminds me of IBM willing to deal w/ the Nazis during World War II
And outside China, they are only too happy to go along w/ censorship demands of the EU or other regimes worldwide, and in the US, where there are no demands from the government, they are only to happy to go along w/ SJWs, and allow the harassment of
Darth Li says to Nadella... (Score:3)
"I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further."
All it took was a blowjob and a few blocked URLs (Score:1)
Phew! (Score:3)
I'm sure that's a huge relief for both users.
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FWIW, Bing is actually used more than you think in China. Not because it's good, but because domestic solutions (Baidu) are crap for anything not in Mandarin, and all the other search engines (Google, Yahoo, Duckduckgo, ...) are blocked.
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They probably repurposed EU Office365 servers... (Score:2)
Upgrades Complete (Score:2)
Great Firewall Upgrades have now been completed, we can restore services once more. ;-)
Fun fact: one of the tones of the word Bing (Score:2)
Fun fact: one of the tones of the word Bing means "disease" in Chinese. Proof: https://translate.google.com/#... [google.com]
"Global Network Initiative" (Score:2)
A nice euphansim.