China Daily: Linux Gains Steam in China's OS Mart

"When US software giant Microsoft partnered, on March 10, with Founder Technology, Tsinghua Tongfang and TCL, three of China's leading computer makers, to bundle its Windows operating system, to promote the use of legal operating systems and give customers greater added value, the absence of the country's biggest computer maker, Lenovo Group, prompted many questions from the audience.

"Microsoft explained more domestic computer makers will join the programme in the future, and that Lenovo was busy with consolidation issues that resuled from its December acquisition of IBM's PC unit..."

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