Microsoft Will Continue to Offer Windows 7 to the Chinese

CommanderFrank

CommanderFrank

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When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. That is Microsoft’s stance with the Chinese who just banned the use of Windows 8. To combat the loss of Windows 8, Microsoft will continue to offer the Chinese government Windows 7 instead.

The announcement of the ban of Windows 8 on China's government PCs came just a few weeks after they revealed that it would continue to use Windows XP, even though the nearly 13-year-old OS will no longer receive any security patches and updates from Microsoft.
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While I still don't prefer it over the old interface, they have made some strides in fixing the clunkiness of Win8.
The ban is almost certainly of the, "make a point", or protectionism, or inadequate kickback. variety. Power usage my ass.

Maybe they should rename everything and ship it with Startisback and try to trick them lol.
 
Wolfkin said:
Wait, they actually banned Windows 8? Bwahahahaha
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Apparently, the Chinese know what they want. They ain't fucking around with no Windows 8. 10 years from now Microsoft will be trying to convince the Chinese to move to Windows Infinite, and they'll refuse to move away from Windows 7.
 
I doubt they are crying too much about this, other than the number of malware and virus vectors it will maintain. If you read the original article, Balmer was quoted saying Microsoft makes less off OS sales in China than they do the Netherlands. I guess this means the Chinese government found the pirated versions of 8 too hard to install.
 
GORANKAR said:
While I still don't prefer it over the old interface, they have made some strides in fixing the clunkiness of Win8.
The ban is almost certainly of the, "make a point", or protectionism, or inadequate kickback. variety. Power usage my ass.

Maybe they should rename everything and ship it with Startisback and try to trick them lol.
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Its because windows 8 has a blackbox in it that users cant touch.
 
EchtoGammut said:
I doubt they are crying too much about this, other than the number of malware and virus vectors it will maintain. If you read the original article, Balmer was quoted saying Microsoft makes less off OS sales in China than they do the Netherlands. I guess this means the Chinese government found the pirated versions of 8 too hard to install.
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China alone has nearly 50% of the worlds population living there. That alone gives Microsoft a raging boner. Right now the Chinese are buying time, cause they're making a Linux OS for themselves.
 
Windows 8 is actually very easy to pirate. So why did China ban it again?
 
OneDrive has more to do with this ban than the Metro UI does. Those claiming otherwise are just plain ignorant.
 
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