>the Chinese government wants this to be the standard OS in China.
That is misleading. The IT market in China is more demand-driven. Impact from the government is limited in government sectors.
That is misleading. The IT market in China is more demand-driven. Impact from the government is limited in government sectors.
Say your office gets computer from Dell and most of the desktops seem stable 98% of the time. Next time when you want a new computer, if you are not a computer geek already, you probably will trust Dell over HP because you have experience with Dell and from experience you know Dell works for you. So in the nutshell, the Chinese government can make this standard OS right now if they want to. In reality, if they really want to pursue this, they will need many years to make this well-known.
Chinese's market is not very different from the Western market. As soon as multiple people recommend X as a choice, X becomes a choice in your shopping list automatically. Remember they want to design the COS to fit the Chinese's usage. This means they want to add their own input natively, their own speech recognition software, they own applications. Things that matter or relevant to the Chinese citizen. Instead of Google Hangout they can add Tencent's QQ/Weixin/Wechat app. Instead of twitter they add Weibo. And of course, they can load whatever they want in this OS that will work for their regulations and laws.
What isn't clear to us is how much is completely rewritten/written by the Chinese engineers since this is based on Linux. Some suspect this is just "Copy Other System" (a joke for COS acronym), which could be another research grant scam.