Asian operating system

We gave it a whirl to see how the hottest China-made OS looks and feels. Behold the login screen. Workers in the entire city of Siping switched to it. This community version is not identical to what is shipping with Dell computers, said Cui Wenzhe, a spokesperson for China Standard Software. It is an XP replacement, alright.

Google cuts Huawei off Android; so Huawei may migrate to Aurora. Call it mobile Eurasia integration; the evolving Russia-China strategic partnership may be on the verge of spawning its own operating system — and that is not a metaphor. Aurora is a mobile operating system currently developed by Russian Open Mobile Platform, based in Moscow. Quite a few top coders at Google and Apple also come from the former USSR — exponents of a brilliant scientific academy tradition. In , Russian entrepreneur Grigory Berezkin started co-owning Jolla, and from his Mobile Platform company started developing a Russian version of the operating system. Ahead of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum last week, Huawei chairman Guo Ping discussed the possibility of adopting Aurora with Russian minister of digital development and communications, Konstantin Noskov.

Richard Yu, the head of Huawei's consumer business, told a press conference in the southern city of Dongguan that the new system, called HarmonyOS, would "bring more harmony to the world". Huawei said the first version of the operating system would launch later this year in its smart screen products. Over the next three years it will be developed across a range of smart devices including wearable technology.

Experts say Chinese maker's Android alternative would likely face frosty reception overseas. But while industry experts agree the Chinese smartphone maker has the know-how to build a workable operating system, whether it will catch on in the global market is up for debate. Huawei phones sold outside of China run on the Android system, and access to latest updates and technical support from Google is critical for the company. That access is now in jeopardy following the U.