China has shocked Microsoft this week by banning Windows 8 on government computers.
The restriction came down as part of a larger decree about energy-saving products but the nation's official news agency Xinhua cited security concerns for foreign operating systems as the reason.
Microsoft said it will continue selling Windows 7 to Chinese officials, despite the ban.
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Originally posted by Jemborg: 1: Five People's Liberation Army generals of Unit 61398, an army unit specifically formed by the Chinese Gov for cyber industrial espionage, have been unprecedentedly (i.e. never ever happened before) indicted by the USA Gov for spying on five major corporations (not MS). China are co-signatures to international binding agreements forbidding these activities.
2: The Chinese are shamed and pissed!... banning Win8 is only part of the fallout from this. It is not the only thing to have happened, talks conferences etc. etc whatever have been cancelled/postponed indefinitely.
3: Just because you think the Chinese market, which is set to surpass America's, is 'no big deal' does not make it so. I'm frankly amazed by that minimisation. Everyone is knocking on China's door.
not being able to do business with china or its citizens would be a major problem for U.S.A as majority of products are made in china.
China also has a very high population and losing sales of windows 8 would hit microsoft.
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I honestly had completely forgotten about the huge population in China
(I got sick-n-tired of watching any media news on TV years ago).
So, then, I realize now what a big market China is.
Microsoft stands to lose a big market from not being allowed to
sell Win8 there.
And that's just for an OS; now imagine if China were to stop doing
business with the U.S. altogether.
Yeah, right... when was the last time we've seen anything
authentically made in the U.S.A. besides home-grown weed?
Originally posted by MagengarZ: ...now imagine if China were to stop doing
business with the U.S. altogether.
We're all interconnected nowadays. Since the communist Chinese have been propping up the US economy in the last decade or so they aren't gonna stop doing business with their investment any time soon. Problem is even if their population consume (buy) more stuff like Westerners, instead of just mostly saving their income as is traditional, it looks likely their own multiple-trillion (yep!) debt bubble could burst. And if that happens the GFC will look like a walk in the park.
That is not just some crank's opinion btw. The US debt is personal credit based (the US gov's is low believe it or not). The Chinese gov was encouraged by the West to spend big to stave off compete collapse in the GFC. They instructed their banks to "lend, lend, lend". In the first year they had lent infrastructure about 2 trillion US$! Double what they were told (or expected to maybe) to btw. They have lately tried to pull back but have unfortunately created an underground black lending sector (like a black market ok) that seems unstoppable.
Their debt bubble is considered the greatest by far in world history from what I recall.
Intellectual property is what the West (like the US) has to offer (sell) nowadays. The cutting back on education spending is one of the greatest blunders of the modern Neo-cons. Not a mistake the Germans made. Most of the iPhone is actually made in Germany! Parts come from everywhere. China is the final assembler...This is what is meant by globalisation.
