When Bill Gates,
the Microsoft chairman, played host to President Hu Jintao of China
in Seattle last month, he learned that he had a customer at the
apex of the world's biggest market.
In a conversation with Mr. Gates, President Hu
volunteered that the computer he used in his Beijing office was
loaded with the Windows operating system, according to two senior
Chinese-born Microsoft executives, Zhang Yaqin and Harry Shum, who
escorted the Chinese leader during the visit.
It is probably not every day that Mr. Gates
offers Windows users personal technical support. However, with
piracy rampant in China, Microsoft and other software companies
have every incentive to seek the good will of the country's top
leaders.
Their efforts appear to be having some effect.
Responding to years of intensive international lobbying, the
Chinese government recently introduced a range of measures that
have the potential to curb widespread piracy and increase revenue
for software companies.
On March 31, Beijing announced that local computer makers must ship
all their products with licensed operating systems pre-installed.
The government has also started a drive to ensure that all
computers in the country's sprawling bureaucracy are loaded with
legitimate software.
host主人，招待
Seattle西雅图
apex顶点
conversation会话，交谈
volunteer自愿
according to依照，根据
executive执行官
escort护送
offer提供
technical技术（上）的
piracy盗版行为 rampant猖獗的
incentive动机，刺激
seek寻找
will决心，意向
appear to看起来
respond回应
intensive强烈的
lobby游说
range界限，范围
measure权衡，估量
potential潜力，潜能
curb制止
widespread普遍的，分布广泛的
revenue营业收入 ship装载
licensed得到许可的
pre-installed预安装的
drive推动
ensure确保
sprawling无计划蔓延
bureaucracy官僚机构
legitimate合法的
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