China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers

Re:China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers by jmnicolas on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @09:50AM (#7772499)

If they fear NSA spying why still use XP ?

If you use Windows 8 you're vulnerable to talented crackers and governments. If you still use Win XP you're vulnerable to anybody.

Maybe they're just afraid of integration of Azure / Skydrive / whatever the new name is that could possibly create embarrassing sharing mistakes.

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Re:China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers by yiedyie on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @10:01AM (#7772547)

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Re:China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers by unicornporn on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @10:14AM (#7772614)

Interesting. Can't find any info about in on http://360safe.com/ though...

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Re:China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers by toni on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @10:43AM (#7772758)

It's part of their "360 Safe Guard"[1] software. But I think it's only available in Chinese. They also have an "enterprise" edition.

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Re:China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers by unicornporn on Sunday May 25, 2014 @04:45AM (#7795845)

Ah, thanks.

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Re:China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers by yiedyie on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @10:17AM (#7772631)

@unicornporn, Agree, I wanted to use it as a solution and I was not able to find it.

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Re:China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers by waps on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @11:43AM (#7773157)

> If you use Windows 8 you're vulnerable to talented crackers and governments. If you still use Win XP you're vulnerable to anybody.

And government is essentially like management. Honesty: 0. Integrity: 0. Sanity: 0. That answers your question.

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