Windows, Bill Gates and a firewall: Microsoft builds China castle even as Google, Facebook fade

Microsoft, which will close its career-oriented social network LinkedIn in China, is one of the few US tech titans that have managed some success in the country.

The software giant has kept its business alive in China largely by complying with strict local laws, despite the communist nation’s wide-reaching censorship.

Here are some key points about the technology and gaming group’s operations in the world’s second-biggest economy.

– A pioneer –

Microsoft arrived in China in 1992 and opened its large.st research and development centre outside the United States. It employs around 6,200 people in China.