Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

China to Develop Windows Clone

Posted by michael on from the they-don't-like-software-assurance-either dept.

jimmu writes "According to both The Register and The People's Daily China is set to develop a windows workalike equivalent to Win 98, with full compatibility with Office 200 and Word. Apparently, 18 companies and universities have been working on the 2 initiatives, with a 1.0 version supposedly already released to certain government offices."

2 of 363 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Interesting but.. by Mattsson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    China...
    They're just bad.
    MS is evil. ;-)

    --
    /.Mattsson - My native language is not English, so please don't whine over linguistic errors. (That's lame anyway...)
  2. OK, then... by Dthoma · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "Win98 may seem like old news, but it's still useful for older, lower spec and cheaper machines."

    Uh...Windows 98? Of all things? Probably one of the buggiest versions of Windows known to man? Hm. Well, it's probably cheap, I suppose, considering the amount of piracy that goes on over there.

    --

    Note to M1-ers: a curt but otherwise insightful message is not "Flamebait" or "Troll".