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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: loe4net who wrote (59408)	9/20/2000 12:28:03 AM
From: CapitalLosses	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122088

Loe, could you state that part about China more precisely? (concerning China), they don't want a Windows operating system. What needs clearing up in your statement is: Who are "they"; what areas of computer use do they not want Windows used in; and from where or what is this speculation derived (what exactly did you hear). If you are referring to the "China bans Win2K" newspaper articles from January, those were erroneous and were corrected. Windows is deployed almost exclusively in business and government sectors in China. It's true that China has concerns about the possibility of Microsoft leaving backdoors in their products that could pose a security concern, but they wouldn't replace it with GEOS. They would replace it with Linux. (GEOS runs great on the Nokia Communicator {which is powered by an AMD Elan embedded 486 at 66MHz} but it's not a desktop business OS and it isn't a server OS.) If you mean China might want GEOS for the common people to use at home -- maybe.