Microsoft Admits Using STOLEN Code To Build MSN Juku, China Site

Microsoft has admitted that the code used to create its Chinese microblogging service, MSN Juku, was copied.

In a blog post that initially got rumors swirling, the Taiwan microblogging site Plurk, a startup,alleged that it was “ripped off” by Microsoft, whose own microblogging site Juku looked “eerily similar” to Plurk’s.

Microsoft suspended MSN Juku to investigate the plagiarism allegations, and subsequently released a statement announcing that the Chinese vendor Microsoft hired to create MSN Juku had indeed used stolen code to build the site.

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