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Nobody uses it in China. Dell installs it on computers just because a computer without an OS is not allowed to sell in China.
by vinceyuan 11y ago
Nobody uses it in China. Dell installs it on computers just because a computer without an OS is not allowed to sell in China.
- dharma1 11y agowhat do people use instead?
- drzaiusapelord 11y agoShh... youre ruining the "MS and the NSA will pay for their crimes" circlejerk here. The reality is that MS is not going anywhere. MS sold 200m copies of Windows last year. Its difficult for organizations to move off Windows, and especially Office and IE, considering how much infrastructure expects those things to be available. The 10 year Munich linux migration wasn't much of a crowd pleaser either, considering that city is thinking about going back to Windows: http://www.zdnet.com/article/after-a-10-year-linux-migration-munich-considers-switching-back-to-windows-and-office/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/after-a-10-year-linux-migration... MS still knows how to play this game well and arguably the desktop is something of a natural monopoly.
- leni536 11y agoWhy don't they just install any other distro or free OS?
- vinceyuan 11y agoThough NeoKylin is not a free OS, I guess Dell may get paid for preinstalling NeoKylin from China Standard Software. According to this source (in Chinese) [1], China Standard Software got 0.5 billions RMB funding ($800M) from the gov. The gov measures its performance by some methods including the shipping number of NeoKylin. It's natural for Dell and China Standard Software to have such a contract. One preinstalls NeoKylin for money. The other has the number to get funding from the gov. Though nobody uses it, two companies get money. [1] http://baike.baidu.com/view/4920982.htm http://baike.baidu.com/view/4920982.htm