Chinese government to ditch Windows in the next three years
All government services will stop using Windows in the next three years
I ditched Windows BTW.
Hell yeah, the people's republic should never rely on closed-source software, especially Western
This should be a universal decisions. A foreign company should not have been allowed to siphon tax money for decades on a global scale. Especially considering a government funding is otherwise used in research and production that benefits us all. That most of us still let this happen in our countries is the greatest modern scam. Well that, along with the consumer computer windows tax, what happened with directx misinformation campaign, IE, etc. How governments didn't distance themselves from microsoft already is a serious question. Especially considering how so many institutes are now stuck with proprietary windows XP exclusive software and unable to update. The security risk is absurd.
This is an article from 2020 and I'm fairly sure it didn't happen.
Here’s one from 2022, in with only 20% of government computers still use Windows. This article also only mentions government computers. I say it’s very possible that the government has fully switched to Linux. I tried daily driving Deepin 20 once and the only major problem was that most of its packages were very outdated.
Fantastic decision
Anyone familiar with Chinese politics + technology want to chime in on how likely various levels of Windows ditching is to happen?
EDIT: This is from February 2020. Have they made any progress yet?
I look forward to seeing Deepin's progress when it is adopted as standard in China.
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