China Bans Government Purchases of Windows 8

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:considering what is known about the NSA

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That "'sketchy definition of "national sovereignty' when it isn't their own," is so unlike the other Five Eyes, the EU, Russia, BRICS, and, oh, say, China. Might I point out that we're all in one big round (or slightly oval) glass house, eh?