Currently, there are more than 50% of China's devices are still running Windows XP, who died on April 8 of this year, and it went on 13 years, while Windows 8 is struggling to find a foothold in China.
The government procurement center of China said, that he issued a decree banning the use of Windows 8, as part of a note on the use of energy-saving products.
The official news agency in China, "Xinhua", that this attempt aimed at ensuring the security of computer system after the death of XP.
It is noteworthy that this decision does not affect the personal computers, but the government agencies.
It seems that this would help the Ubuntu Kylin Chinese distribution to prove itself in the market in the coming period.