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<font size="+1"><font face="Ubuntu">Looking a few more articles, the
official reason given (protect the environment) appears to be a
smokescreen. I truly doubt the Chinese will ever give the real
reason for the ban which I believe has more to do with the
NSA/MS presumed cooperation. Recently on Arstechnica there was
an article claiming that the NSA intercepts and modifies
hardware going to foreign countries.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/05/14 10:40, Jay Lozier wrote:<br>
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<font face="Ubuntu">Interestingly, the reason cited was security.
Apparently China believes Windows has been compromised by the
NSA and is trying to move to an OS that the NSA has not
contaminated. Or they have evidence but are not publishing it so
they can use it against the US government.<br>
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This sounds like China is moving towards a FOSS OS, probably
Ubuntu Kyrinn (sp) in several lurches. First they strongly
recommend XP users switch to Linux, now sources say W8 is
banned. That only leaves W7 as an allowed Windows OS and I
believe sales of any version W7 is ending very soon</font>. The
next report will probably say China has adopted a Linux distro for
the government. This would mean somewhat more slowly China will
"adopt" Linux as the default OS and OEMs will need to preinstall a
Linux distro for computers destined to the Chinese market.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">CNET 5/20/14: "China bans Windows 8 from
government computers" - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cnet.com/news/china-bans-windows-8-from-government-computers/">http://www.cnet.com/news/china-bans-windows-8-from-government-computers/</a><br>
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