Macintouch 25.8.03

Cnet Asia reports on a Chinese initiative to eliminate Windows
dependence:

A new policy from China's governing body states that all government
ministries must buy only locally produced software at the next upgrade
cycle.

  The State Council's move, aimed at breaking the dominance
of Microsoft on desktop computers,
will eliminate Microsoft's Windows operating system and
Office productivity suite from hundreds of thousands of
Chinese government computers over the next few years.