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

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.