Posted on 08/27/2014 7:09:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
SHANGHAI — China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft, Google and Apple, Xinhua, the government news agency, reported.
Computer technology became an area of tension between China and the United States after a number of run-ins over cybersecurity. China is now looking to help its domestic industry catch up with imported systems such as Windows from Microsoft and the mobile operating system Android from Google.
The operating system would first appear on desktop devices and later extend to smartphone and other mobile devices, Xinhua reported on Sunday, citing Ni Guangnan who heads an official operating system development alliance established in March.
Mr. Ni’s comments were originally reported by the People’s Post and Telecommunications News, an official trade paper run by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
“We hope to launch a Chinese-made desktop operating system by October supporting app stores,” Mr. Ni told the trade paper. Some Chinese operating systems already exist, but there is a large gap between China’s technology and that of developed countries, he added.
He said he hoped domestically built software could replace desktop operating systems within one to two years and mobile operating systems within three to five years.
In May, China banned government use of Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system, a blow to the American technology company’s business, raising fears that China was moving to protect domestic companies.
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Back in 2003, a consortium of Asian nations, including China, Japan and South Korea, announced an effort to develop an Asia-centric operating system based on Lunix. That project, which eventually came to include Vietnam, Thailand and Sri Lanka, was dubbed Asianux.
I wonder what ever happened to that...
What was unclear in the Xinhua report is whether this new operating system will be limited to Chinese users, or be offered internationally. Based on the comments from Ni, it seems, at least in the short-term, the former is more likely.
Sssoooooo, we have gay’s in the military and they are allowed to marry each other...sooooo yeah China, take that.
And teachers are teaching and having anal sex with students...you don’t have that in China, do you...soooo you’re not that evolved are you.
Additionally, as recent as 2012, another Asian concern, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), announced that it was developing the India Operating System. The desire is to design an OS that will secure India’s Cyber network.
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Wonder what wonderful back doors they’re going to put them.
There are only a few industries in which America still leads.
When China takes those, look out.
America needs to support American manufacturing once again.
My trust for Microsoft has worn thin.
So there is no way I would put a ChiCom operating system on my computer
I’ll bet the chinks are “developing” an OS. More likely they’re piecing together what they stole.
So, if China ever develops an OS that can compete with Microsoft or Apple, do you suggest we TAX them for selling it in the USA?
Well! I will be sure and install it right away! After all, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
LUnix, lol! “All your Commodore 64 are belong to us”
I’m just saying.
China has 4 or 5 times America’s population.
We currently import a MASSIVE amount of production from China.
All I am saying is, America needs to support America.
If it’s easy to steal, and intellectual property usually is, the Chinese public won’t pay for it. Chinese businesses that develop any kind of intellectual property usually go bankrupt.
RE: All I am saying is, America needs to support America.
Sure, I do not question the sentiment, but I question HOW you plan to do it -— INCREASES IN TAXATION OF FOREIGN MADE GOODS.
I am unconvinced that it will work to “support” manufacturing in America.
Regulation and taxes due to democrats and Obama (probably some under Bush too but to a lesser extent) are a huge burden on manufacturers in addition to the union thugs that'd get their feet in any new shop (but to a lesser extent nowadays). If we get someone who can reverse that tide along with a will congress (both of them) we might be able to get some back here. But there is always the long term threat that the dems would get back in control and booger it all up again, so it's along shot that we'll get our manufacturing base ever back to where it needs to be.
LOL!
I'm with you on that, kidd. I don't trust the ChiCom's any more than our own fed's.
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