Microsoft Gets Export License To Sell To Huawei

hackingbear writes: Microsoft has been granted a license to export [mass market] software to Huawei once again. The software giant was caught up in a long line of US-based technology companies that have been forced to comply with President Trump's executive order to crack down on Chinese tech companies. It's not immediately clear what "mass-market" refers to, but Microsoft sells Windows and Office licenses to Huawei. It's likely that Microsoft is at least able to sell Windows licenses to Huawei once again, which will help with Huawei's server solutions and its Windows-powered laptops. Microsoft is part of a number of US companies that are starting to get licenses to supply goods to Huawei once again. Huawei has been anticipating a fight with the US and prepared and succeed in replacing American (electronic) technologies with its own home-grown replacement for almost two decades after Motorola foolishly rejected the chance of acquiring Huawei, China's most successful hi-tech company worth at least $100 billion today, over a bargaining price of $7.5 billion. "When this decision was made, I told them [Huawei executives], if we continued to work in this sector, we would definitely be in a race against the US in 10 years. We had to prepare", said then Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei after the merger fell through. However, software ecosystems, i.e. Windows and Android, remain Huawei's Achilles' heel.

Never attribute foolishness to conspiracy

[hackingbear]

Motorola foolishly rejected the chance of acquiring Huawei, China's most successful hi-tech company worth at least $100 billion today, over a bargaining price of $7.5 billion

So we have been blaming China for not opening up their industries to the US, while they had offered to sell their most successful hi-tect companies and some American companies acted foolishly and missed their opportunities. (Though some other American companies were very smart [wikipedia.org].)

Smell like just another falsified accusations made up by US media and politician to appeal to populism/nationalism in this country.

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[mschaffer]

Wrong. The market is not so open if you can only get into the market by buying an existing company.

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[hackingbear]

Your claim is factually not true [wikipedia.org] and non-sense (why would a government allow purchasing an existing company with huge market but not allow starting up a company from empty?)

Export licenses?

[Bert64]

So large companies can get export licenses, but smaller american businesses are still cut off from doing business with huawei or with venezuela etc...

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[AmiMoJo]

Microsoft has expensive lawyers.

This could have been disastrous for them. Imagine if Huawei had been forced to go all-in on Linux for servers and laptops.

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[HiThere]

They're really foolish if they're planning on anything new depending on the ability to import stuff from the US. The orange one is capricious, and changes his mind without notice.