China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 4, 2013 @07:59PM from the the-devil-you-know dept.

tdog17 writes "China says it wants Microsoft to extend support for Windows XP because that will help in its fight to stop proliferation of pirated Microsoft software. A state copyright official says the release of Windows 8 means a substantial increase in the selling price of a Windows operating system, especially in light of the upcoming end-of-life of Windows XP, which is still used by a large percentage of Chinese. That could drive users to buy pirated copies of a new operating system because they are cheaper, he says."

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Re:Microsoft is running out of milk cows by gigaherz · 2013-12-04 22:39 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I had a wireless Microsoft mouse once, it lasted around a week on fresh new AAA batteries, after which it would start failing to transmit to the pc properly, until it just simply did not work. I decided not to every try any piece of hardware made by Microsoft again. In contrast, my experience is that any other OS I have tried fails to compare to a Windows 7 installation, including other versions of Windows.