Why not Windows 11? Because China, like many other non-US governments, no longer trusts American companies with their software and services. This approach is all about digital sovereignty.

I never understood why any country would allow their government computers to run proprietary software from a foreign (to them) company.

I'm sure that China had access to a lot of Windows source code as part of their previous agreement, but it's far too big a risk, really, for any country, even the United States, to run Windows.

As far as I'm concerned, China is decades late in making this decision, and it's still ahead of a lot of (most?) governments.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

I bring it up any opportunity I get at work, but nothing yet. Unfortunately, our IT team does not have the skills or experience working with Linux, so it would probably be a rocky and dicey transition. As a dev, I think I can maybe convince the right people that our team should go Linux and we could be the test cases. We would all survive without the MS suite, but a lot of tools would have to change, like Jetbrains instead of Visual Studio.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 6 points 1 hour ago

I don't always say this, but good job China!

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 4 points 1 hour ago

That's amazing, especially considering China has even more people than the entirety of Europe combined, may we soon follow over here