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Microsoft’s Windows and foreign database programs also sidelined as Beijing favours Chinese hardware and software
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China has introduced new guidelines that will mean US microprocessors from Intel and AMD are phased out of government PCs and servers, as Beijing ramps up a campaign to replace foreign technology with homegrown solutions.
Lao Zhangcheng, in charge of purchasing 16 fully Chinese computers for an organisation under the Shaoxing city transport bureau, said his colleagues had no choice but to get used to domestic operating systems. “We are replacing old computers that have foreign chips,” Lao said. “After this purchase, basically everyone in the office will have a domestic computer. The old computers we have left with Windows systems can still be used under certain situations.”
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