In June, Beijing launched its latest attempt to come up with an indigenous rival to Microsoft Windows. Can it work?
Credit: openKylin's official Weibo
Microsoft Windows has long enjoyed dominance in the desktop operating system market in China — and Beijing has long wanted that to change.
Now after years of attempting to develop an alternative, the Chinese government is shifting tack. Its latest effort to come up with a viable indigenous rival to Windows — announced officially in June and known as the openKylin project — is looking to draw on expertise from a so-called “root community” of both state and non-state backed comp
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