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China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux (www.zdnet.com)

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Anyone know what this is?

[Windows 10 China Government Edition...] and support for Chinese cryptographic standards.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 6 points 2 weeks ago

This is one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM9_(cryptography_standard)

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago

maybe ships with chinese ca certs? not sure. i think i've seen ISOs for this chinese govt edition win10, you can probably get one from mydigitallife forums if you're curious

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's Windows 10 but an edition suitable for the China Government.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

yea but what are the cryptographic standards they need that aren't included in other editions of Windows?