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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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Jay<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/05/14 09:15, Don Kramer wrote:<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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