China announced a plan to replace Windows with Linux on over 50 million PCs, echoing Germany’s earlier shift, aiming to eliminate foreign operating systems, reduce licensing costs, and boost domestic tech, while prompting mixed reactions from hardware manufacturers and software vendors.
The report estimates that China's Xinchuang (independent‑innovation) market across eight strategic industries encompasses over 2.3 million PCs and 0.57 million servers, representing more than 1 trillion CNY in PC hardware and 2.5 trillion CNY in server hardware, with an annualized market potential exceeding 900 billion CNY when combined with government sector demand.
This article chronicles the development, challenges, and ultimate decline of IBM’s OS/2 operating system, examining technical decisions, market dynamics, and strategic missteps that led to its failure despite early promise in the.
