The Chinese government's desire to be fully free from
Microsoft's products seems really serious, recently there is Chinese operating
system called NeoKylin which is getting popular and widely adopted as an
alternative to Windows.
A video reveals the manifestation of the NeoKylin operating
system. As you can see, although it's polished with different colors, but
overall Neokylin has a similar interface with the Windows XP. Starting from the
start menu, taskbar, desktop, folder icon, recycle bin and also the login
layout, all of them are very similar to Windows XP. This is done probably
because the Chinese government doesn't want to create confusion for the staff.
Keep in mind, after Windows 8 was blocked, practically only Windows XP that may
still be used by government agencies, though Microsoft has stopped the support
for Windows XP update.
Interestingly, NeoKylin also provides Office software which
becomes the alternative of Word, Excel and Powerpoint but again with the
interface and features that are very similar to the Microsoft Office software.
It's said that the application is modified from one of versions of OpenOffice.
Regardless of what is presented, the adoption of NeoKylin
has now come to a very serious stage, in which the computer manufacturer Dell
even has begun shipping devices with NeoKylin installed as the default OS. The
percentage is not small, according to TheVerge, 40% of Dell computers that will
be sold in China have adopted NeoKylin OS, such as the Dell Latitude, Dell
OptiPlex, and Dell Precision.
It's not a secret anymore if China is not a country that's
friendly to the products and services that are made by western world. You certainly
still remember when Windows 8 was blocked by the Chinese government, first they
argued because it was too expensive. But later the real reason was revealed,
i.e. for safety factor. The Chinese Government considered that Windows 8 could
be used as a spying tool that could potentially threaten their security. It
also happens to Google where till this moment Google still gets difficulty to
penetrate the bureaucracy of country that's dominated by Xiaomi.