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Microsoft cosies up to China with Win8 weibo support

theregister.co.uk (11 months and 5 days ago)

Jun 17, 2012

Sina Weibo users accounted for in People app Hot on the heels of Apple’s China love-in at its Worldwide Developers Conference this week, news has emerged that Microsoft is planning to integrate the country’s hugely popular Sina Weibo micro-blogging platform into Windows 8.… full story

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