Innovation

China Planning Operating System to Compete With Microsoft, Google and Apple

China is looking to launch its own operating system, an initiative that the government reportedly hopes will make its information systems more secure.

Details regarding the underpinnings of the operating system have yet to be revealed, but the move was reportedly spurred by the end of support of Windows XP and the ban on Windows 8 in China. The government also launched an anti-monopoly probe against Microsoft earlier this year.

This isn't the first major push from China to shake off ties to Western operating systems in favor of a locally developed operating system that might be more easily secured in the face of the ongoing international Internet intelligence skirmishes.