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China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading
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."
For now they're still under the delusion that saving money and not needlessly upgrading are virtues. With time they'll learn to throw away perfectly good computers and millions of hours of training for shiny things.
Oh I can think of more reasons than that. For example, Windows XP is far more exploitable as it exists almost exclusively as a 32bit OS. Keeping their people exploitable better ensures they can continue to do what "no US government would even consider doing to it's own citizens."
Also since China is extremely large, infrastructure change concerns are likely high on their list of concerns.
And yes, if they don't have to buy any new licenses at all they should be pretty good to go without spending any more money.
They probably like money. It's a very common condition.
"It's the [Windows] with the lowest additional value"
That sentence scares me.
There are dark places in the universe. Depths of irrationality where mathematics are just rituals and sorcery. A chaos where what should never be is fighting to escape. In that place there's a pit that even the horrors avoid. A tear where the tapestry of reality is at its weakest point.
That's where they store "the Windows with the lowest additional value". And that's where it should stay. Watching us. Hungry.
because torrents, are poisoned.
Chinese clever, not like dumb kid in West who use torrent.
"They probably like money. It's a very common condition."
Nah. I think that's a myth. If Microsoft liked money they never would have released Windows RT or Windows 8.
"Invest heavily in spyware for ancient insecure OS, then resist change"
Does anybody else remember when it used to be "MICROS~1"?
Comment was written with my MS Intellimouse Expl 3
I've found that it is much easier to write a comment using the keyboard.