Lenovo chairman Yang Yuanqing said that in 2006, Lenovo would purchase 10 billion yuan worth of Microsoft system software, China Business News reports. Speaking in Beijing at a conference on intellectual property, Yang predicted that for the domestic market alone, Lenovo would spend as much as 1.2 billion yuan on Microsoft system software; he said that this not only represented the close trading relationship that exists between China and the US, but also reflected a commitment to copyright and intellectual property protection. Since last November, Lenovo has been pre-installing Microsoft Windows on a large proportion of the machines it sells in the China market.Link: http://dycj.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=7813083