Microsoft announced on October 13 that a localized version of its collaborative application Microsoft team will be officially launched in China in the first half of 2023.
Microsoft Greater China General Manager of Marketing and Operations, Microsoft said that the localized version of Team can better improve the communication efficiency of multinational companies heading towards globalization and aiming to better serve the Chinese market.
According to Roan Kang, China's monthly active users have increased by more than tenfold during the COVID-19 pandemic, indicating a surge in local demand.
st Century Internet was founded in 1999. It is one of the leading third-party neutral data center service providers in China. Its main business is to support the rapid growth of large Internet companies and large enterprises. The company provides services to Chinese technology giants such as Alibaba and Tencent . The state-owned enterprise Qidi Holdings is currently the largest shareholder.
Since 2013, Century Internet has been the operating entity of Microsoft's cloud computing service Azure. Since then, the two sides have been promoting cooperative relations and expanding the scope of cooperation, and Microsoft is currently seeking to capture China's growing cloud computing market.
Following Azure, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform operated by Century Internet were launched in China in 2014, 2019 and 2020, respectively.
