Xiaomi has made no secret of its plans to expand its reach to global audience. Since the Chinese market has now become super competitive, the only way to justify $45 billion valuations is to look for sales elsewhere. Xiaomi seems keen to expand to the US and a new development might be very helpful.
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According to a new report, Xiaomi has now inked a pact with US software giant Microsoft. The deal involves patent transfer agreements and pre-installation of Microsoft’s software on Xiaomi devices.
After the agreement, it was announced that Xiaomi will start shipping a number of Xioami devices from September with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Skype. The Chinese handset maker is expected to pre-load the Mi 5, Mi Max and Mi 4s, as well as cheaper Redmi Note 3 and Redmi 3 smartphones with Microsoft apps.
“Microsoft has sold Xiaomi nearly 1,500 high-quality patents that read on a variety of technologies including wireless communications, video, cloud and multimedia,” a Xiaomi spokesperson told a leading tech portal.
The alliance with Microsoft is part of Xiaomi’s bigger strategy to expand to the US. The company has also recently had a patent deal with Qualcomm. Further, they’ve also built an Android set-top box in collaboration with Google. All this clearly hints that Xiaomi wants to build relationships with top tech brands in the US.
Bloatware…
I remember when OEM loaded Microsofts products with bloatware, now its a complete reversal, crazy how times have changed. All patent extortion as well.
Luckily system pre installed apps can be delated on MiUI.
no. System apps can’t deleted on MIUI. That’s my biggest frustration as I am stuck with MiReader shits, Mi Stock market stuffs, and other useless craps.
Some of them can all do recently less & less.
what does this mean? No offense, but I really didn’t get your meaning.
In MiUI 8 when introduced it whose possible to uninstall more systems apps then now.
Soon? man… it’s already the case. The last two xiaomi I purchased were packed with them. Maybe “start to ship from September” meant “September 2017”. Bought a Hongmi 5 plus and a Hongmi 5A and both have the MS office suite. Which is nice I think.
Over my ass…