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China bans government use of Windows 8

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China bans government use of Windows 8 - Livemint

China has banned government use of Windows 8, Microsoft Corp.’s latest operating system (OS), in a blow to the US technology company which has long been plagued by sales woes in the country.
The central government procurement centre issued the ban on installing Windows 8 as part of a notice on the use of energy-saving products, posted on its website last week.

I think we should all follow China's lead on this one.


Neither the government nor Xinhua elaborated on how the ban supported the use of energy-saving products, or how it ensured security.

I was curious as well as to how the product was energy-saving.
 
I am still rocking XP for a couple of my computers. I like it far more than 7 or 8.
 
dinosaur.

I use my computers for CAD (engineered drawings). XP runs the program well. My experience with 7 & 8 is that CAD crashes at very random times.

Also, XP is great for gaming. And it is energy efficient according to the Chinese government.
 
I use my computers for CAD (engineered drawings). XP runs the program well. My experience with 7 & 8 is that CAD crashes at very random times.

Also, XP is great for gaming. And it is energy efficient according to the Chinese government.

I know what CAD is :).

You know xp is no longer supported by microsoft.
 
I know what CAD is :).

You know xp is no longer supported by microsoft.

Well aware. Damn the torpedoes. Microsoft may not be supporting the product, but my anti virus software is. Until they bail out, I am fine, or buy a new printer.
 
The factual reason for the ban by China would be the well known NSA backdoor into the operating systems provided by Microsoft for USA intelligence Agencies.

Oh yes because XP is not full of gigantic security holes anyways. China is also one of those countries we may want to keep an eye on. If they are using XP it will not be only the NSA hacking into their systems, it will be literally anyone with a computer.
 
shrug...

If China wants to stick with an antiquated OS (XP), prevent their citizens from moving forward along with the rest of the world and subject themselves to increased probability of hacks and attacks...that's their choice. Since MS doesn't make that much money off the Chinese because of piracy, this isn't hurting MS any more than they already are being hurt. In fact, this ban on Win8 could mean that the Chinese government will prosecute those Chinese who try to pirate Win8.

The only ones really being hurt by this ban are the Chinese.
 
not sure what version i'm using. here's my home screen :

Windows_2.0.png

welp, back to playing reversi.
 
I am still rocking XP for a couple of my computers. I like it far more than 7 or 8.

I have to agree with that. We have all three running on various machines. 7 is not as pleasant as XP and 8 takes the cookie on anything but a tablet.
 
I still use XP. Perhaps with this Chinese decision they may re-support Xp again.

I hope Microsoft tells China to go **** itself.
 
You wish you were that old.



Well, I did head off to college rocking 3.1 with a 386, a 40 mb hard drive, no sound card, and a 2400 baud modem*.
















*my awesome folks promptly upgraded me to a soundblaster, 100 mb hard drive, and 14.4 k baud. And the year after that, it was pentium 60. My folks are pretty great. I can still feel the excitement of finding a new local BBS to download shareware from. 14.4 baud felt like lightning speed after 2400. And then ethernet a couple years later? That was like landing on the moon.
 
Well, I did head off to college rocking 3.1 with a 386, a 40 mb hard drive, no sound card, and a 2400 baud modem*.
















*my awesome folks promptly upgraded me to a soundblaster, 100 mb hard drive, and 14.4 k baud. And the year after that, it was pentium 60. My folks are pretty great. I can still feel the excitement of finding a new local BBS to download shareware from. 14.4 baud felt like lightning speed after 2400. And then ethernet a couple years later? That was like landing on the moon.

That's powerful, my college had a VAX 11/780 and my first PC on the job had an 8088 CPU with no graphics card and DOS 2.1.
 
the fact is microsoft shot itself in the head with windows 8.
i don't nkow very many corporations that are leaving 7 after the upgrade from xp.

i know my company only orders windows 7 boxes.

windows 9 doens't look to be anymore promising just what windows 8 probably should have been.
until they come out with another windows xp/7 model they are going to have a hard time getting anyone but consumers to switch.
 
the fact is microsoft shot itself in the head with windows 8.
i don't nkow very many corporations that are leaving 7 after the upgrade from xp.

i know my company only orders windows 7 boxes.

windows 9 doens't look to be anymore promising just what windows 8 probably should have been.
until they come out with another windows xp/7 model they are going to have a hard time getting anyone but consumers to switch.

Remember vista and win 2000? Something will come out that will make sense. You know what I hate about windows 8...it is like apple ios. Passwords and logins for everything. Apps. Not what I wanted at all.
 
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