Tech war: China doubles down on domestic operating systems to cut reliance on Windows, MacOS from the US


By Che Pan

Kylinsoft joined forces with more than 10 Chinese entities to create an open-source code community named openKylin. China’s quest for a domestic operating system has been going on for decades, but Microsoft Windows remains dominant. — SCMP

China has created an open platform to accelerate the development of a home-grown desktop operating system, in its latest effort to shake off the country’s reliance on foreign systems such as Microsoft Windows and Apple’s MacOS.

Kylinsoft, a subsidiary of state-owned China Electronics Corp, last week joined forces with more than 10 Chinese entities, including the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Centre, to set up an open-source code community.

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