The End of Naked PCs in China?

fishter writes "The Chinese Government is calling on PC manufacturers to ensure that a properly licensed operating system is installed on their products before they leave the factory. One manufacturer has already signed a deal with Microsoft to install its operating systems on all its personal PC products. The edict would also apply to foreign manufacturers supplying PCs to Chinese companies and residents."

Comments

The power of a monopoly

[iplayfast]

That is amazing. I knew that Microsoft could influence governments, but whoa, this is too much.

Although China may have it's own verions of Linux to install, and that is what they are doing.

I wonder if you have no hard drive on the naked pc if that is still a computer. This is just totally weird.

Re:John Maddog Hall

[suso]

To whoever modded down my comment. Don't mod what you don't understand. My comment was on topic. John "Maddog" Hall commented once on how there were only 500 million computers in the world, so that means 5.5 billion haven't choosen their operating system (implying Linux could take that market). My comment was meant to be funny.