A Chinese O/S at last?

[Randy W]

in the SCMP

 

A Chinese OS at last? More than 40 per cent of Dell PCs in China now running homegrown Windows alternative

 

 

Forty-two per cent of personal computers sold by the US computer maker in China run the NeoKylin OS, a senior Dell executive told the Wall Street Journal.

The move comes as Dell has begun partnering with Chinese firms to expand into sectors seen as crucial to national security by Beijing.

 

Last week, the firm unveiled investments of up to US$125 billion as part of a new "In China, for China" strategy. Dell also announced a partnership with Chinese cloud computing firm Kingsoft and state-owned components maker China Electronics Corp, a subsidiary of which co-developed NeoKylin with the National University of Defence Technology under the Central Military Commission.

 

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Dell is the first Western brand to make personal computers running NeoKylin, which is based on the open-source Linux OS popular with server operators, . . .

 

A mobile software platform, the China Operating System (COS), was announced in January 2014 with great fanfare and official support, but has failed to make any headway against Google's Android or Apple's iOS.

 

 

Less than 2 per cent of smartphones in China do not run either Android or iOS, with Google's operating system by far the most popular as of July 2015, at nearly 74 per cent of devices, according to Statista.

 

Even with Dell's support of NeoKylin, the Chinese OS has a long way to go if it is to make any headway against Microsoft.

 

According to StatCounter, as of January this year, 97.2 per cent of desktop computers in China ran a variety of Windows, with far more machines still using the discontinued Windows XP than a non-Microsoft OS.

 

 

[Allon]

I am sure there are some intel agents (and I don't mean Intel) working for Dell in this venture. Interesting that the tech university is under the Chinese Military. Very interesting.

[Greg.D.]

Headline:

 

"NeoKylin OS doesn't distinguish itself much except for a very powerful "copy" function"