New Windows 8 SKU : Windows 8 for China?

[ilovetech]

@Canouna revealed as a possible new low cost country specific SKU for windows 8.

Earlier, we?ve talked about ? Pro ? and ? Pro Pack ? SKUs, now it?s time to show some strange SKUs. I?ll show now, one called ? CoreCountrySpecific ?, branded in Windows 8 as ? Windows 8 for China ?, therefore Microsoft may work on a cheap version of Windows 8 to prevent future conterfeit copies.

It can be installed only with Chinese ISO, with English one, you get a BSOD related to ? bad MUI ?. I didn?t notice something special so far, as it?s too soon and still under contruction.

As you can see, there are none pre-pinned applications in the taskbar.

LPKSetup still present, it may allow some time to install other Language Packs.

Source: http://winunleaked.tk/2012/03/windows-8-post-beta-part-4/

https://twitter.com/#!/Canouna/status/185640680272572416

[Vice]

Windows 8 Anti-Piracy Edition?

[techguy77]

Windows 8 Metroless.

[neufuse Veteran]

low cost to prevent counterfeits? ha........ even if its free they will still counterfeit it!

[butilikethecookie]

China is a Communist nation and they love to control everything. They are probobly making it to china's standards. There is a european edition in the works too....

[firey]

Windows 8 Metroless.

I wish

[Gone]

Windows 8 "We are spying on you" edition?

[Dot Matrix]

You guys need to get over this Metro BS... We know you hate it, but it's not going away. :pinch:

[Kyang]

Wow, nothing so far but comments about spying and communism?

Maybe it's tailored to work with the popular Chinese web services by default instead of the other Western ones?

And if that's true then Windows 8 won't need to do any of the spying since those China approved sites do enough of that already...

[jakem1]

Ignoring the trolling from the usual idiots, I expect that this edition will exclude Xbox Live just like WP7 does in China.

[Rudy]

You guys need to get over this Metro BS... We know you hate it, but it's not going away. :pinch:

You'll be right when we reach RC stage....but there's still some hope :D

[zhangm Supervisor]

Ignoring the trolling from the usual idiots, I expect that this edition will exclude Xbox Live just like WP7 does in China.

Maybe they'll put some backdoors in the built-in firewall.

[FalseAgent]

Ignoring the trolling from the usual idiots

...yep...

I expect that this edition will exclude Xbox Live just like WP7 does in China.

and yep. Also, the social integeration with Facebook, Twitter, and maybe even Windows Live may be removed as such services (even YouTube, wtf) are banned there.