China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of Windows 10 — Beijing accelerates planned retirement over data security concer

China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of Windows 10 — Beijing accelerates planned retirement over data security concer

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Trake_17 Look, China has spent like 25 years stealing our IP and training Chinese students in American schools to develop tech independence. They're probably ready at this point to do it themselves. Reply

Penfolduk Looks like even the CCP isn't crazy enough to "upgrade" to Windows 11… 🤣 Whether this is due to specific security concerns, or just the general push to move away from Western products, remains to be seen. Reply

SteJBorchard Isn't it china as well that also limits internet time/screen time for people under a certain age? Im probably getting my countries confused.. Also probably not relevant. 😀 Reply

hotaru251 but didn't specify what vulnerabilities Beijing is worried about. could be the fact MS has publicly stated they can track a windows install at will via Global Device ID (GDID)…… god only knows what else they have secretly running on their devices. China is smart for leaving the spyware OS. Reply

USAFRet hotaru251 said: could be the fact MS has publicly stated they can track a windows install at will via Global Device ID (GDID)…… god only knows what else they have secretly running on their devices. China is smart for leaving the spyware OS. 1. MS being able to 'track' a Windows install happened long ago. Like pre-Win 7. 2. The OS the Chinese (or US) govt installs and uses is not the same as thee and me. Lots of things are stripped out. Reply

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