According to reports in Taiwanese media, Microsoft will cut more than 300 jobs in mainland China and over 10 jobs in Taiwan in the second round of its staff reductions.

According to a measure on unified outsourcing of legitimate Microsoft products by netcafes in Dongguan, Microsoft aims to push netcafes in Dongguan to use legitimate software within five years.

An email that is rumored to be an internal document from Microsoft and saying that a new round of staff reductions by Microsoft will affect the company's employees in the Greater China region is being disseminated online.

After the U.S.-based National Labor Committee published a report critical of technology companies' operations in China, the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition says it will now conduct an investigation.

Guo Wencai, director of the Grass Roots Organization Set-up Division of the All China Federation of Trade Unions, said at a press conference that multinational companies would not be allowed to delay or hinder employees in the setting up of trade unions, or have two standards on human rights issues.

China E-commerce Info Tech Company has sued Microsoft for patent infringement because of the use of RSS within its Vista operating system.

Hong Lei, the webmaster of Tomatolei.com and writer of Windows XP Tomato Edition, is reported to have been taken into custody by the Suzhou Public Security Bureau.