Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2014-07-05
South Korea said that it will move away from Windows in the future to avoid dependency on the Microsoft operating system, citing the fact that Windows XP is no longer supported.
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| Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP on April 7, 2014. (photo/Xinhua) |
South Korea said that it will move away from Windows in the future to avoid dependency on the Microsoft operating system, citing the fact that Windows XP is no longer supported.
In a
government statement, South Korea said that it has upgraded its operating
system to Windows 7 to replace Windows XP, but has no intention to repeat the
cycle again in 2020 and consequently has decided to choose open resources
instead, reports TechEye.
South Korea
will invigorate a pivot program consisting of ten public and private
institutions, the program related to employee education and the system paid for
by the government. Apparently, South Korea is trying to support its domestic
software developers.
This is the
second defeat Windows has suffered in Asia after the Chinese government
rejected Windows in its procurement project, reported Beijing Business Today,
the biggest financial newspaper in Beijing.
The central
government of China has ordered that no computers belonging to the facilities
of the central government be installed with Windows 8. Meanwhile, officers have
publicly encouraged domestic operating systems.
There has
been report about the central government banning Microsoft Office as well,
though Microsoft China denied the news. What is clear, however, is that
Microsoft is losing its government customers, and very fast.
Its
discontinuation of support and upgrades for Windows XP seems to be the main
reason leading Microsoft into this crisis. Since its introduction in 2001, the
now classic Windows XP has dominated the operating system market for personal
computers. In additional to common users, Windows XP enjoys a huge amount of
government customers.
Microsoft
retired the thirteen-year-old Windows XP in this April so as to popularize the
latest operating system Windows 8, causing an earthquake in business.
Governments and companies spent quite a lot to upgrade to Windows 7, and many
came to the awareness of the over-dependency on Windows and the future cost of
inevitable replacement.
Furthermore,
since the NSA's Prism surveillance program was exposed last June, countries and
businesses have become much more alert to information security, gradually
cutting their reliance on huge corporations such as Windows and Apple, and
switching to domestic software.
Microsoft
is in a difficult situation in the age of the mobile internet. On the one hand
it has to deal with Apple and Google to transform to mobile market; on the
other hand, its advantages in its core software are weakening due to loss of
government customers.
Fortunately,
there is still some time for Microsoft to rearrange itself. The empire of
Microsoft will not collapse in one night, after all, and there are years to go
before the arrival of 2020.
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