North Korea did it before it was cool 🤣🤣
All hail our glorious Red Star OS
Distinct, high-pitched voice from the 1970s:
“Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand!”
All kidding aside, I’m glad to hear this news.
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?
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.
China’s tech boom is relatively recent so they had to rely on western tech in the mean time.
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.
They should all switch to thr Hanna Montana distro
Good. And when China says they’re axing something that means the entire population isn’t going to be using it anymore.
Hope microslop feels that right in the pocketbook.
Losing China and money hand over first on copilot? I’m gonna have to call my doctor for this erection problem that just popped up.
The China Government Edition of Windows 10 was not developed by Microsoft; C&M Information Technologies (CMIT) developed it. CMIT itself is the product of a 2016 joint venture between Microsoft and the state-owned China Electronics Technology Group. This custom Windows build is designed to comply with Chinese government requirements and includes localized activation and update measures. It also removes certain customer services and adds support for Chinese cryptographic standards.
Fascinating.
It’s finally happening
good movement!
MSFT will soon bribe our regime to compel us to use Windows, I presume.
There’s an old Bill Gates quote about whether he was worried Windows software piracy in foreign countries was hurting the Microsoft bottom line. He responded, “I’d rather they pirate copies today so we can sell them copies tomorrow.”
Similar logic behind distributing Student copies of windows software on high school / college campuses.
Please china give me MaoOS
