China's got a new, home-grown, totally original operating system called NeoKylin, but wait just a second...

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Shown off in the above hands on by Quartz, NeoKylin is a Chinese-made Linux-based system built in part to lessen the country's reliance non-Chinese software in general, and in part to lessen its reliance on Microsoft's aging Windows XP in particular. Not that you would notice right away given as how they look virtually identical.

According to Dell, nearly half the computers it sells in China are shipping with the new OS, and the need to move away from Windows XP is real. Microsoft stopped updating the ancient OS in April of last year, so they only way to stay on XP without being a sitting duck to hackers is to fork over a princely sum to Microsoft for continuing support the way the US Navy did. You can see why that might not appeal to China.

Besides, it looks like a Windows XP user would have a pretty easy time getting used to this.

Source: Quartz via Gizmodo





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