Chinese OS and software ecosystem

why big china social doesn't launch english versions of their platforms? For example i would use nicely baidu to see china maps streetview etc and to organize travels

I hope in some reasonable future lot of Chinese services will go international, with global coverage (at least for friendly countries)...
I really want to get rid of Android, GPS and all other western software and services...

the first step to go international will be launch english versions of their sites

voyager1 said:

Nobody serious uses Libre Office over Microsoft Word. At this point Microsoft's ecosystem blows everything else out of the water.

IMO Microsoft's ecosystem needs to be broken up by the regulators.

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White collars use WPS office majority of the time in China it's free with subscription for additional services, despite the paid parts , it works pretty well for regulator office work, basically a lite version of office suite

voyager1 said:

Nobody serious uses Libre Office over Microsoft Word. At this point Microsoft's ecosystem blows everything else out of the water.

IMO Microsoft's ecosystem needs to be broken up by the regulators.

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People tends to move to Google docs instead.

el pueblo unido said:

White collars use WPS office majority of the time in China it's free with subscription for additional services, despite the paid parts , it works pretty well for regulator office work, basically a lite version of office suite

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I use WPS Office for my personal laptop and it works fine. Ever since Office online, I don't trust word to be private.

gadgetcool5 said:

I use WPS Office for my personal laptop and it works fine. Ever since Office online, I don't trust word to be private.

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I remember back to the 2015 or 2016, there was news about somebody found many suspicious backdoors like ”poorly written“ code in the Linux port of Visual Studio, I was told by a Canadian computer science Professor that, big tech company may have compromised their product under the demand from agencies like NSA. Considering how they later leaked major Windows expo Eternal Blue that has caused the most damage to the global south, which the civilians are still sticking with old pirated windows 7 os (many in china even today), it would not be surprise to me if that claim about VS turn out to be true, it's funny how US often like to point China, Russia and Iran to be the go to APT example.

Xiaoice, a Chinese AI pioneer, was spun off from the United States technology giant Microsoft and became a separate company based in Beijing more than a year ago. It recently announced that its AI platform, also called Xiaoice, can now produce traditional Chinese paintings that are not simply copies of human works

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There is an app for that, and it's called Xiaoice Island. The AI-powered social network app was developed by Chinese artificial intelligence pioneer Xiaoice, which was spun off from United States technology giant Microsoft as a separate company based in Beijing more than a year ago.

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styx said:

why big china social doesn't launch english versions of their platforms? For example i would use nicely baidu to see china maps streetview etc and to organize travels

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Basically they would have to make a global version similar to tiktok / douyin.It would only make sense if the users are large enough that they can support 2 platform with developers/moderators.

daifo said:

Basically they would have to make a global version similar to tiktok / douyin.It would only make sense if the users are large enough that they can support 2 platform with developers/moderators.

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I have been waiting for an international and English version of Wechat.