14 DAY TRIAL // I’ve already told you a couple of days ago that Windows cannot be replaced by Linux in China, even though the local government hopes that this would eventually happen at some point, and new statistics provided by research firm CNCC come to confirm this.
The figures which have been published by Chinese television CNTV show that Windows is installed on 83.4 percent of the computers in China, which is pretty much an indication that no matter how hard the government pushes Linux as a potential alternative, Windows is there to stay.
The second place goes to mobile operating systems that are said to be powering 16.3 percent of the devices in the country, while Mac OS X is in third place with 0.2 percent.
Linux, which is the preferred choice for government officials, is only installed on 0.1 percent of the computers in China, according to these figures, which makes it more than obvious that Windows won’t have a rival in the local OS market anytime soon.
There’s however a bad thing about Windows in China. According to the same television channel, a large number of the computers powered by Windows are most likely running a pirated version of the operating system, which more or less confirms Steve Ballmer’s own stats revealing that 9 out of 10 Windows licenses in China are not genuine.