[HN Gopher] Windows 10 China Government Edition
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       Windows 10 China Government Edition
        
       Author : 5ESS
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2022-04-16 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blogs.windows.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blogs.windows.com)
        
       | lnxg33k1 wrote:
       | I'm not sure what to take away from this news but at first I
       | thought it was some sort of meme :0
        
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       | _nickwhite wrote:
       | Published "May 23, 2017"
       | 
       | I'm not sure why this hit the HN front page?
        
         | throwmeariver1 wrote:
         | Because there was a discussion about a stripped windows 10 iso
         | yesterday with a link to the China Government Edition. It's the
         | Hackernews cycle of lazy ass karma farming.
        
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       | kerng wrote:
       | I thought at first this is a joke, but no.
       | 
       | It should be called the Windows 10 Spy Edition -
       | removing/replacing crypto so it can be decrypted by the
       | government...
       | 
       | Something like this should get a lot more attention and Satya
       | Nadella should clarify why they support this?
        
         | belter wrote:
         | Windows 10 Russia Edition soon?
        
         | smoldesu wrote:
         | This is nothing new. Apple does (or rather, did) the same
         | thing, by making versions of MacOS/iOS that funnel data
         | directly to the CCP and utilize domestically owned and
         | controlled servers. Unfortunately, catering to China seems to
         | be the norm in this space.
        
           | neilalexander wrote:
           | Do they (Microsoft/Apple/whoever) really have much of a
           | choice? The alternative would likely be that their products
           | end up banned if they don't satisfy the government. Not
           | really a China-specific problem either -- strikes me that the
           | same would be true in many countries.
        
             | smoldesu wrote:
             | I mean, they _do_ have an option. Companies like Google,
             | Netflix and parts of Amazon are completely unavailable in
             | China. Their option is to not be complicit in data
             | collection for their oppressive government, but greed and
             | disrespect for user privacy usually triumphs.
        
         | thatguy0900 wrote:
         | More like windows 10 were not spying edition. Probably the only
         | one Microsoft doesn't have insight into what youre doing on it.
         | China has access to their source code.
        
           | LegitShady wrote:
           | It probably spies even more than regular windows 10, it just
           | reports the results to someone else.
        
       | occamrazor wrote:
       | > The Windows 10 China Government Edition is based on Windows 10
       | Enterprise Edition, which already includes many of the security,
       | identity, deployment, and manageability features governments and
       | enterprises need. The China Government Edition will use these
       | manageability features to remove features that are not needed by
       | Chinese government employees like OneDrive, to manage all
       | telemetry and updates, and to enable the government to use its
       | own encryption algorithms within its computer systems.
        
         | netizen-936824 wrote:
         | That almost sounds like windows that isn't spyware
        
         | Stevvo wrote:
         | So Chinese government gets a version of Windows that works for
         | the customer instead of for Microsoft... why can't we all get
         | that option?
        
         | cosmodisk wrote:
         | Do they have an English version of it? I could really use
         | something without half of the crap they try to push on me.
         | Yeah, fuck you Cortana.
        
           | mhio wrote:
           | Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC, if you can swing the volume
           | licensing requirement.
           | 
           | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-
           | blog/l...
        
         | my123 wrote:
         | It's the EnterpriseG SKU.
        
       | kylehotchkiss wrote:
       | Not a bad idea. I'm sure China has its own domestic threat model
       | and maybe this provides some better protection against data
       | encryption malware and whatever other annoying tricks hackers are
       | trying.
       | 
       | Does china have its own desktop OS though? I'd imagine that they
       | have a pretty good domestically designed one.
        
         | nonrandomstring wrote:
         | > Does china have its own desktop OS though?
         | 
         | Red Flag? [0]
         | 
         | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux
        
           | derevaunseraun wrote:
           | sounds like a red flag
        
       | xg15 wrote:
       | The title could really use a (2017).
       | 
       | But I think it's a very interesting submission. At least I didn't
       | know such a version of Windows 10 existed. I wonder if Microsoft
       | would do such a project again in the current situation.
        
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