Microsoft heads for the Wild, Wild East
1) I don't think that the ?strict family planning" law and its subsequent smaller families will have any affect on the consumer purchasing patterns in the Chinese economy because even though the younger generation of 26 years and younger only equals 45 percent of the 1.2 billion population, they are already generating more consumer spending that its parents basically on all kinds of merchandise, including electronic products such as: color televisions, refrigerators, VCR's, telephones and of course computers. The population of China is at an overwhelming amount but most of the elder population does not even really contribute to the consumer purchasing of electronic products, there fore when the numbers of the population shrink in the future because of the ?family planning law' it wont affect the consumer purchasing of electronic because it is the younger generation that does most of the buying. So, I feel it is a sure bet to say that the future of the Chinese economy is not at stake.
2) Yes I feel that the replacement of Microsoft's Chinese management team after the
1992 business miscalculation was just a justifiable and a wise decision because
obviously this team did not their research on the Chinese history and their way of
life. They should have done an in-depth and thorough investigation into the
country and inquire as to what is and what is not acceptable because not o ...