China starts Linux revolution...

China is huge future market for technology. There are billions to be made. Microsoft is desperate to get a foothold there, and has been up to it's usual tricks. However, they have not been able to make the Chinese government cow to them like some others. China (like Russia) has banned Microsoft OS's from many military and other sensitive systems due to Microsoft's complicity with the NSA in spying on Microsoft users.
China has also promoted the development of it's own Linux distro. Now China is requiring that all PC's there be Linux compatible. Given that most PC hardware comes from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China, this WILL affect everyone. And this movement is growing.

I think that if I had long term investment funds that included Microsoft stock, I would sell them. This and the ODF movement combined with Microsoft's general lack of competitive products is really going to hurt them in the next few years.

It explains Microsoft's huge push for the communist like TCPM systems. To enable them to wring the last dollars out of their declining profits at the expense of customers.

Don't buy it though, TCPM is a noose, don't put your neck in it.

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