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Reuters
BEIJING -- China will ban use of Microsoft Corp's new Windows 2000
operating system throughout the government in a bid to support
indigenous software, an official newspaper reported in editions
available on Thursday.
Officials at several government ministries said they were unaware of
such a policy, which the Yangcheng Evening News said would save the
government billions of dollars.
``The country's important government ministries will not permit the
use of Microsoft Windows 2000 on their computers,'' the newspaper
quoted officials as saying.
The ministries would instead use ``Red Flag - Linux,'' a new software
platform developed by Chinese researchers and based on upstart
operating system Linux, the newspaper quoted the officials as saying.
Weaning China away from reliance upon Microsoft software would be the
Information Age equivalent of China's invention of the atomic bomb and
launch of its first ballistic missile and the satellite, it said.
``Maintaining independence and keeping the initiative over our own
operating system will be the `Two Bombs and Satellite' of the new
era,'' it quoted the officials as saying.
Windows is still far and away the dominant operating system for
personal computers in China. While piracy is rampant -- reaching a
rate of more than 90 percent by some estimates -- the Chinese
government has said it uses legally registered copies.
Windows 2000, designed to replace Microsoft's popular
business-oriented Windows NT operating system, is scheduled to hit
markets in China in the first half of this year.
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