Entire Chinese City Dumps Windows for NeoKylin

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Microsoft definitely doesn’t feel like home in China, where it’s experiencing really serious problems because of local regulations, and it turns out that the company is rapidly losing users in the country as a result of its legal trouble.

After Windows 8 was banned on government computers in May this year, Microsoft now lost a full city, which decided to switch from Windows to NeoKylin.

Bloomberg reports that, as part of China’s struggle to migrate to locally developed software, the city of Siping dumped Windows completely and installed NeoKylin, a homegrown operating system based on Linux, that’s said to provide enhanced security and better control for the government over built-in code.

Microsoft hasn’t yet issued a comment on this, but it’s definitely something that Redmond expected to happen, especially since the company continues to be involved in a legal dispute with local authorities.

China’s central government is currently investigating Microsoft for violating competition rules, but the allegations aren’t exactly clear.

Redmond was accused of not disclosing full software incompatibilities of some of its products, including Office and Internet Explorer, but sources close to the matter suggested that it was all just part of China’s efforts to achieve software independency.

In the meantime, Microsoft is working with local authorities to address all claims and said on several occasions that, no matter the ongoing investigations in the country, its products, including Windows 7 and Windows 8, would continue to be available to Chinese buyers.
 

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A free linux (ubuntu based) OS named after a mythical Chinese creature whose appearance signifies good tidings makes it appear far more appealing even with fewer choices.;) Hm, I wonder whether anyone uses OSX...:confused:

Does anyone know, if one were to travel to Siping City, if your computer was not confiscated and if you were able to connect using Windows, would this be considered violating any crimes with our connection being spotted as a blip on surveillance equipment?o_O:p
 

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As China already dumps it, then how about other OS that has same functions as from Windows like ReactOS as young open source operating system? Perhaps totally only from Windows due to its fact came from well known company Microsoft. ;)
 

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I am thinking that Microsoft can't wait to get the Windows 8 monkey of their back. An operating system that essentially will never be used by federal,state and local governments,institutions,businesses,etc or at least the majority of them. Although it is much better now on 8.1 it still would be a headache going from 7 to 8 in these examples. I am really surprised that Linux has not broke into some of these institutions especially since it is such a customizable OS. I do think,or hope,that Windows 10 will be a much needed improvement.I wonder when Microsoft will break their trend of 1 good OS followed by 1 bad OS followed by 1 good OS followed by 1 bad OS and so on.You can follow that trend since Windows 95
 
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