The Chinese government’s replacement for Windows is called NeoKylin, and it looks very familiar based on a hands-on from Quartz–which reports today that the OS is already running on more than 40 ...

Dell computers at a store in Shanghai. The United States-based company said about 40 percent of its commercial PCs are now pre-installed with a China-developed operating system. [Photo/China Daily] ...

When Microsoft finally announced that official support for Windows XP was coming to an end, China wasn’t happy. At the time, Windows accounted for 91 percent market share on the desktop, compared to ...

The rising clout of Chinese tech companies has extended to operating systems, with US computer giant Dell Inc opting to pre-load more than 40 percent of commercial PCs that it sells in the domestic ...

When Microsoft ended support for Windows XP last year, most of us moved on to Windows 7 or 8, but not the nation of China. XP was still in wide use around the country and upgrading was an expensive ...

For years, the “year of the Linux desktop” was right around the corner: Open-source software would displace Windows (or Window$), and usher in a glorious, peaceful revolution in the computing industry ...

Meet Neokylin, China’s fast-growing entrant in the operating-system battle. WSJ’s Rick Carew discusses the software, which Dell and Hewlett-Packard are preloading on PCs sold in China.

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Microsoft has signed a "legal covenant agreement" with Linux operating system provider China Standard Software Co. Ltd. (CS2C), and will be jointly developing, marketing and selling solutions for the ...

Over 40 percent of commercial PCs sold by Dell in China are said to run the nascent OS. At first this seemed like an interesting concept but then I began to understand how nutty it would be to rely on ...