Microsoft's online store has resumed selling Huawei laptops, after disappearing MateBooks from the Microsoft Store after the Chinese tech giant was blacklisted by the US. The US last month added Huawei to its "entity list," and President Donald Trump signed an executive order essentially banning the company in light of national security concerns that Huawei had close ties with the Chinese government. Huawei has repeatedly denied that charge. Microsoft as a result stopped selling Huawei laptops through its online store at the end of May, but said on Monday that it has been evaluating the regulations and will resume sales of its existing Huawei inventory on the Microsoft Store.
The move raises questions about what happens next, what, if anything, Microsoft's actions mean for Huawei's business.
The company said in an emailed statement, "[Microsoft] will continue to respond to the many business, technical and regulatory complexities stemming from the recent addition of Huawei to the US Department of Commerce's Export Administration Regulations Entity List", adding that it is selling existing inventory it already had in its warehouses -- not new devices.
Support for existing devices appears to fall outside the ban.
The Huawei MateBook X Pro is for sale on the Microsoft Store, listed for $1,499. So is the Huawei MateBook D for $999 and the Huawei MateBook 13 in Intel core i5 and core i7 variants for $999 and $1,299, as spotted earlier by The Verge.
While the laptops appear if you shop all PCs, you cannot select Huawei as a manufacturer to narrow those results. You can only choose from Dell, HP, Asus, Razer, Lenovo, MSI, Acer, Samsung and Microsoft.
Microsoft's reversal could help Huawei's economic position, after its CEO Ren Zhengfei said earlier Monday that the company's troubles with the US could take a $30 billion toll on Huawei's revenue expectations for 2019.
Initially, the company had expected to post revenues of $125 billion to $130 billion this year, up from $104 billion in 2018, but has now reduced its estimates to just $100 billion. "We did not expect they would attack us on so many aspects," said Zhengfei, adding that he expects things to improve by 2021.
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