MSN Chinese website has been revamped. It's pretty good to use. The power of its China team is getting stronger and stronger. But the MSN software is still terrible, very awkward to use. If it weren't for some business friends on it, I would have deleted it long ago. From this, we can see that the development team for the Chinese version of MSN probably doesn't have an office in China, they just translated the English version. Moreover, its website is truly based in China, forming a situation where the web is strong but the client is weak. As Xiao Pan said: using the Chinese version, you absolutely cannot find the 25G online storage function on MSN, the localization is done terribly.
Xiong Huaming, CTO of TC, said that the first ten years were about competing on services, the next ten years will be about competing on technology. This means that in the first ten years, foreign giants overlooked the importance of localizing for China, failing to keep up with services that meet the needs of Chinese users, which led to their complete failure in the internet sector. In the next ten years, after paying enough tuition, gaining experience, and learning lessons, foreign companies are starting to use local teams, and thus their original technological advantages will come into play, leading to competition on technology. For this reason, according to data from the TC Research Institute, as of October 2008, TC has applied for 1897 patents, and the total number of patent authorizations obtained has reached 154, surpassing the total number of patents held by domestic internet companies.
Strategic planning without funds is really powerless. Myspace and Facebook have also started localized operations. Domestic internet companies can still mess around for now, but what about the next five or ten years? Where are our local angel investors? Our VCs? Deeply worried!!