Why China still runs on Windows

Microsoft's Windows remains effectively unavoidable on Chinese desktops despite Beijing's efforts to reduce reliance on Western technology. Microsoft's China division announced on May 29 a partnership with Tencent to publish Tencent's Android catalog on Windows. The article says some analysts have estimated Microsoft's share of China's desktop OS market at as high as 80%, though exact figures are hard to obtain due to piracy and secrecy. Beijing's open-source OpenKylin system, released last year to lower reliance on Windows, has not proven more popular than Linux.