China Bans Government Purchases of Windows 8 200
itwbennett (1594911) writes "Last week, China's Central Government Procurement Center posted a notice on new requirements for government tender, that included, among other things, the mysterious request that Windows 8 be excluded from the bidding process on computer purchases. The agency could not be reached Tuesday, but China's state-controlled Xinhua News Agency said that the government was forbidding the use of Windows 8 after Microsoft recently ended official support for Windows XP."
Re:So do we end up with the ironic situation (Score:5, Funny)
but to have it supported you first need to buy a licence for it... that kinda rules out Chinese copies of XP.
Breaking: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:makes sense (Score:3, Funny)
No, this is proof of the recent industrial espionage allegations against China; they've obviously seen the source code for Windows 8, and they know they don't want it.