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Microsoft Venus was an aborted venture by Microsoft into the low-end personal computing market in the People's Republic of China. The product, a set-top operating system designed to work with low-end televisions (somewhat similar to MSN TV in the United States), was announced by then-Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on March 10, 1999 in Shenzhen, and was to be made available by January 2000; it never made it out of Microsoft's lab however, slowly dying less than a year after its announcement.

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  • Microsoft Venus was an aborted venture by Microsoft into the low-end personal computing market in the People's Republic of China. The product, a set-top operating system designed to work with low-end televisions (somewhat similar to MSN TV in the United States), was announced by then-Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on March 10, 1999 in Shenzhen, and was to be made available by January 2000; it never made it out of Microsoft's lab however, slowly dying less than a year after its announcement. (en)
  • 維納斯計劃是微软曾经面向中国大陆的一项计划，微软提供了一种类似MSN TV的机顶盒，作为个人电脑的廉价替代品。这项计划曾经得到了中国政府的支持。1999年3月10日，微软在深圳宣布了该项计划，机顶盒曾计划2000年1月正式上市，但最后没有上市。由于一个机顶盒价格约为3000元，过于昂贵，中国政府又推广基于红旗Linux的计算机，该种计划最终未能成功。 (zh)
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  • Microsoft Venus was an aborted venture by Microsoft into the low-end personal computing market in the People's Republic of China. The product, a set-top operating system designed to work with low-end televisions (somewhat similar to MSN TV in the United States), was announced by then-Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on March 10, 1999 in Shenzhen, and was to be made available by January 2000; it never made it out of Microsoft's lab however, slowly dying less than a year after its announcement. (en)
  • 維納斯計劃是微软曾经面向中国大陆的一项计划，微软提供了一种类似MSN TV的机顶盒，作为个人电脑的廉价替代品。这项计划曾经得到了中国政府的支持。1999年3月10日，微软在深圳宣布了该项计划，机顶盒曾计划2000年1月正式上市，但最后没有上市。由于一个机顶盒价格约为3000元，过于昂贵，中国政府又推广基于红旗Linux的计算机，该种计划最终未能成功。 (zh)
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  • Microsoft Venus (en)
  • 維納斯計畫 (微軟) (zh)
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