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China Bans Government Purchases of Windows 8

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @04:20AM from the everybody's-got-priorities dept.

itwbennett (1594911) writes "Last week, China's Central Government Procurement Center posted a notice on new requirements for government tender, that included, among other things, the mysterious request that Windows 8 be excluded from the bidding process on computer purchases. The agency could not be reached Tuesday, but China's state-controlled Xinhua News Agency said that the government was forbidding the use of Windows 8 after Microsoft recently ended official support for Windows XP."

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Re:So do we end up with the ironic situation by gbjbaanb · 2014-05-20 04:31 · Score: 4, Funny

but to have it supported you first need to buy a licence for it... that kinda rules out Chinese copies of XP.
Breaking: by mujadaddy · 2014-05-20 04:35 · Score: 5, Funny

This just in: China was considering paying for an operating system!

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Re:makes sense by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-20 04:55 · Score: 3, Funny

No, this is proof of the recent industrial espionage allegations against China; they've obviously seen the source code for Windows 8, and they know they don't want it.