Security News > 2017 > May > Microsoft Unveils Special Version of Windows 10 For Chinese Government (The Hackers News)
2017-05-24 02:43
China is very strict about censorship, which is why the country has become very paranoid when it comes to adopting foreign technologies. The country banned Microsoft's Windows operating system on government computers in 2014 amid concerns about security and US surveillance. Even in the wake of that, China had been pushing its custom version of Windows XP and its forked version of Ubuntu
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