• underisk [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    The pedant in me wants to point out that Microsoft had very little to do with this outage, but it’s at war with the part of me that thinks Microsoft is absolutely not worth defending in any way.

  • TheLastHero [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    sure they avoided billions of dollars in economic losses, but at what cost?

  • s08nlql9@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    The article doesn't tackle much on what software or operating system China uses. It only mentions Harmony OS, which is based on Android.

    • WayeeCool [comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      Harmony is the mobile and iot OS, it is also no longer based on Android. For the replacement of Windows on critical systems it's a Linux distro called Kylin maintained by the National University of Defense Technology.

      https://www.kylinos.cn/