The Central Government Procurement Center issued a notice that was posted on its website last week prohibiting the use of Microsoft’s latest operating system. The ban applies only to the government offices, however the market of personal computers remains unaffected. Microsoft stopped providing the support for its longest running and most successful 13 year old operating system, Windows XP, despite the fact that it has been used widely across the world than any other OS. The state news agency’Xinhua’pointed out a different reason for the ban saying the country wants to avoid any further losing of the support.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/05/china-bans-microsoft-windows-8-for.html