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Tackling Microsoft's Asia Challenge

In Microsoft's battle for global IT supremacy, Andrew Pickup is charged with taking the fight to Asia. He talks about social networking, piracy and management.

In Microsoft Corp.'s ever-tougher battle for global IT supremacy, Andrew Pickup is charged with taking the fight to Asia. The U.S. software giant's Asia-Pacific chief operating officer excluding China, India and Japan has a lot on his plate these days. Microsoft is planning new tablet-PC designs that use the Windows operating system to rival Apple Inc.'s iPad, and it recently launched the 2010 incarnation of the Office suite.

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