The German news magazine "Der Spiegel" reports, that Japan, South Korea and China are seriously planning on a substitute for MS Windows.
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I think the golden days for Micro$hit are over soon!
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The Link to the origianal article in german
And here is the google translation:
Japan, China and South Korea plan the development of a replacement program for Microsofts Windows. The asiatic states want to decrease thereby their dependence of the US manufacturer. Microsoft could thereby in the future several hundred million customer lose.
Tokyo - a speaker of the Japanese government said, of Japan Minister of Trade Takeo Hiranuma the project wanted to bring on Wednesday in motion. Then it meets the ministers of economics of China and South Korea at the edge of a restaurant summit of the countries of the Asean alliance. With them it wants to specify concrete steps for the development of an Windows alternative.
"Japan does not have the intention of rejecting a certain product", said the speaker. "however Microsoft Windows dominates everywhere, although the people want to test also different products." Therefore it is important to work on alternatives.
A further reason for the step unique in this form is the increased occurrence of computer viruses in Windows systems in the last months. Thereby many the high dependence on Microsofts operating system became only conscious.
Basis for spare substitution of the Asians can be the operating system Linux. The program offers view of the source code to everyone and could therefore by asiatic programmers be developed further and with the special needs of the countries be co-ordinated.
First considerations for the development of an Windows alternative had been already exchanged in March at a meeting by asiatic software developers in Thailand. Meanwhile Sharp, NEC Hitachi and Fujitsu also several universities are to take part in the plans beside technology companies such as Toshiba.
Despite the Asean summit on Wednesday a concrete development plan is specified according to data of the Japanese daily paper "Asahi Shimbun" probably only in the middle of Septembers. Then top officials of the Ministries of Trade from Japan, China and South Korea meet to a further meeting.
I think the golden days for Micro$hit are over soon!
groovebuster