China plans to drop Windows earlier than planned in favor of Linux for some government bodies. The move comes as part of China's broader push to reduce dependence on foreign products and services, especially those of US origin.
China’s tech boom is relatively recent so they had to rely on western tech in the mean time. Now they probably also have the same issues as other non US countries in that it is hard to retrain all staff to use a “new” OS and related software.
Pardon my ignorance, but did they have other options during the 90s and early 2000s? Did they have big software houses that could produce their own OS or tailor Linux to what I assume was then foreign hardware, and also have the ability to interact with standard file formats like Microsoft Office documents so that they could interact with foreign companies?
(Since tone can be hard to convey in text, and comment threads often lean aggressive, I want to say that these are genuine questions, not an attempt to be snarky)
Honestly just shocked to hear they’re still on Windows.
where do you think all the hacked versions you can download online have come from all these years?
Micrasoft.com?
I don’t have any reason to believe it’s solely China or mostly China.
the majority of hacked software comes from China or Russia.
this isn’t a bad thing per se, it’s just a matter of both countries lack laws that prosecute citizens for IP theft of western software.
China’s tech boom is relatively recent so they had to rely on western tech in the mean time. Now they probably also have the same issues as other non US countries in that it is hard to retrain all staff to use a “new” OS and related software.
They should all switch to thr Hanna Montana distro
That logic does not follow.
How so?
It’s essentially saying: “I only recently got a computer, so I had to install Windows.”
Pardon my ignorance, but did they have other options during the 90s and early 2000s? Did they have big software houses that could produce their own OS or tailor Linux to what I assume was then foreign hardware, and also have the ability to interact with standard file formats like Microsoft Office documents so that they could interact with foreign companies?
(Since tone can be hard to convey in text, and comment threads often lean aggressive, I want to say that these are genuine questions, not an attempt to be snarky)
Why do you think they need tailored Linux?
Open source word processors usually support Windows file formats.