When Microsoft finally announced that official support for Windows XP was coming to an end, China wasn’t happy. At the time, Windows accounted for 91 percent market share on the desktop, compared to ...

The Chinese government’s replacement for Windows is called NeoKylin, and it looks very familiar based on a hands-on from Quartz–which reports today that the OS is already running on more than 40 ...

The rising clout of Chinese tech companies has extended to operating systems, with US computer giant Dell Inc opting to pre-load more than 40 percent of commercial PCs that it sells in the domestic ...

Dell computers at a store in Shanghai. The United States-based company said about 40 percent of its commercial PCs are now pre-installed with a China-developed operating system. [Photo/China Daily] ...

"Windows is too expensive"Should change to domestic OS from the viewpoint of security safetyThe Chinese government that appeals that it is changing from Windows to domestic OS dominant in the PC OS ...

When Microsoft ended support for Windows XP last year, most of us moved on to Windows 7 or 8, but not the nation of China. XP was still in wide use around the country and upgrading was an expensive ...

Microsoft has signed a "legal covenant agreement" with Linux operating system provider China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C), and will be jointly developing, marketing and selling solutions for the ...

For years, the “year of the Linux desktop” was right around the corner: Open-source software would displace Windows (or Window$), and usher in a glorious, peaceful revolution in the computing industry ...

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