They are not up to but scared of something. Changing all the traditional file systems formats, and computing system, and putting the rest of the world imcompatiple with their os, may become a too risky step for them. Since Linux and MS enmity is rising, such a step could lead a bigger anger and reaction from the users and might push crowds step away from MS solutions very fastly.
They might be evaluating, "Do i feel lucky?" at the moment.
There is a possibility that Chinese government got the full source or something close to it, in some way. They have such practices in the past and ready to pay lot of money to the insiders. With some changes they will release it as a clone. We should also consider this possibility. Otherwise, if it is not based on Linux, I do not believe one year is enough to produce such a chaotic system like Windows.
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They are not up to but scared of something. Changing all the traditional file systems formats, and computing system, and putting the rest of the world imcompatiple with their os, may become a too risky step for them. Since Linux and MS enmity is rising, such a step could lead a bigger anger and reaction from the users and might push crowds step away from MS solutions very fastly. They might be evaluating, "Do i feel lucky?" at the moment.
Stanislaw Lem and Solaris forever. Not some Asimov and Clarke junk.
Funny, chopsticks for mouse...I live in China since some time, but this can work, I decided to make a prototype. :)
There is a possibility that Chinese government got the full source or something close to it, in some way. They have such practices in the past and ready to pay lot of money to the insiders. With some changes they will release it as a clone. We should also consider this possibility. Otherwise, if it is not based on Linux, I do not believe one year is enough to produce such a chaotic system like Windows.