Continent of Asia to compete with MS

[Durandal7]

http://www.reuters.com/locales/news...e=technologyNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=3363256

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan, South Korea and China are set to agree to jointly develop a new computer operating system as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software, Japanese media reported on Sunday.

Quoting sources close to the matter, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) said that, if the plan matures, the three nations are likely to build upon an open-source operating system, such as Linux, and develop an inexpensive and trustworthy system.

The plan is to be proposed by Japanese Trade Minister Takeo Hiranuma at a meeting of economic ministers from the three nations in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, it said, adding that agreement was seen as likely.

Government officials were not available for comment.

The Nikkei said the recent spread of computer viruses targeting the Windows system was one reason behind the plan, as it has awakened governments to the need to reduce their dependence on Windows operating systems.

 

[jxyama]

read the story over at /.

just the ability to have better chinese/japanese/korean character support would be a good incentive.

one of the reasons i bought Mac/OS X is because of its superb Japanese character support, straight out of the box.

 

[wdlove]

Yes, why don't they just go with Mac OS X. Why try to rebuild almost perfection!

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by wdlove
Yes, why don't they just go with Mac OS X. Why try to rebuild almost perfection!

Most people don't own macs.....

But this is good news in a way. Competition is exactly what MS needs. And coming from Asia, that will have a huge user base (China).

D

 

[Powerbook G5]

I wonder if Bill is downloading in his pants yet...usually when those Asians do something, it ends up being small, efficient, and never breaks. All you need is to chip away at a few bricks at the base of the castle to bring the walls down...let's see if this will add a few more chips to Microsoft's castle.

 

[big]

horaay!

 

[applemacdude]

Why don't they just go with Mac OS X instead of building their own operating system? Anyways this id good news and I hope this diminishes Microsoft's Monopoly and market share...

 

[Macmaniac]

Maybe Apple should slip them Marklar, there problem would be solved without the massive purchase of hardware.