The Chinese government says it will to avoid buying PCs with Windows 8. Such an announcement was posted on a government news website on Tuesday, the news said that desktops, laptops and tablets purchased for government use should work with a “different” operating system, with no possible operating system being specified. be used.
The government is the largest buyer of computer software in China, which in turn is the largest PC market in the world, not even the US is close by.
The Central Government Purchasing Center said the ban was part of a program on the use of energy-saving products. Such an action could seriously harm Microsoft since China has the largest number of users of computers with Windows XP installed, whose support was withdrawn in April. This Chinese government action comes at a worse time because of Microsoft's incentives to migrate to Windows 8.
Some PC vendors are still able to provide machines that run the older Windows 7 software, which can satisfy the government under the new rules.
Source: The Guardian
