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  • Is the Internet truly global? (China claims Internet doors still locked by an English key?)

    12/16/2004 3:34:09 AM PST · by Happy2BMe · 21 replies · 4,955+ views
    The Internet is home to a wealth of multilingual content, but are its doors still locked by an English key? At the end of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's hourlong address at the company's recent Government Leaders Summit, a representative from the Internet Society of China made the following remark in the ensuing Q&A session. "Mr. Ballmer, now we still have to type in 'weather.com.cn' to check the weather. Most Chinese people can't do that. They just want to type in 'tian qi' (Chinese for weather)," he said. Short of a more concrete answer, Ballmer acknowledged that Microsoft needs to work...