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Microsoft Releases a Version of Windows 10 For the Chinese Government (techinasia.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the doing-more-for-the-Chinese-government dept.

Tech In Asia reports that Microsoft has completed their Windows 10 Chinese Government Edition, citing Caixin magazine's interview with Microsoft China's CEO. "Haupter told Caixin that it features fewer of Microsoft's consumer-targeted apps and services," the site reports, "while including more management and security controls, in accordance with the needs of China's government." It was back in December that Microsoft first announced their plans for this joint venture with the Chinese government. While Windows is popular in China's fast-growing market, "piracy of Microsoft's software runs rampant," reported PC World, adding that "in order to actually make money from Chinese consumers and businesses, Microsoft needs them to pay up." Update: 03/28 18:12 GMT by M : Slashdot understands that this supposed special edition of Windows 10 is not ready for the rollout yet.

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  1. Microsoft control and security? by khz6955 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Haupter told Caixin that it features fewer of Microsoft's consumer-targeted apps and services .. while including more management and security controls, in accordance with the needs of China's government."

    If you don't want the Chinese Government or Microsoft telling you what to do with your own computer then move to Open Source Linux. Ubuntu

    1. Re:Microsoft control and security? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ah, Ubuntu. The Linux Distro that has an Amazon widget that give you suggestion about what you 'might like to buy'

      Personally, Ubuntu is the last distro that I'd use. I much prefer CentOS. 10 years of patches...
      Other (and far better) non commercial Linux distros are available. I'd even go for Mint over Ubuntu.

      Unlike Microsoft, Canonical isn't completely tone deaf. Besides the fact that the Amazon stuff takes less than 2 minutes to completely and verifiably strip out, did you know that it's being dropped entirely for the 16.04 release coming out next month?

      (As a side note, I've tried CentOS. From version 7 on, you can tell they only really care about it as a headless server just by looking at the package repositories. I hope you enjoy compiling many of your desktop applications from source or rebuilding Fedora RPMS. Since Red Hat has long since abandoned the desktop, I'll stick with a Debian derived distro for anything running a GUI.)