It’s time to say goodbye to Windows at Huawei: Yu Chengdong, the president of the company’s consumer business, has confirmed that the current generation of their own laptops will be the last to come with an operating system from a third-party company. The next-generation Huawei PCs will come with pre-installed HarmonyOS software instead of Windows, which will be a significant milestone in the Chinese ecosystem.
The HarmonyOS developed specifically for PC will naturally be called HarmonyOS PC, and based on the signs, the official announcement is expected soon. Until then, we don’t know any further details about whether Huawei will only sell the computers on the domestic market or globally with its own software, or what system requirements they will have.
Skipping Windows won’t directly hurt Microsoft, since the Chinese only cover 10 percent of the 40 million-unit PC market, according to analyst firm Canalys. Lenovo dominates China’s PC market with a 38 percent share, ahead of HP’s ten percent. For the time being, these actors are not interested in taking over Huawei’s operating system – which may even change over time, if patriotic sentiments or Beijing pushes the local environment more and more aggressively towards self-made technologies in this area as well.
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The move is the latest result of the tension between the United States and the Chinese company, since the US put Huawei on a commercial blacklist in 2019, and since then the company has been forced to become independent from foreign components and software in more and more areas. After the introduction of the sanctions, it was possible to reduce the use of American technologies relatively quickly, and Huawei is slowly achieving independence in more and more areas.
The company has been developing its own operating system for five years, which was cut off by the United States from all American and later allied technologies, including critical system components of Google’s Android, from 2019. The brand new Chinese operating system, the completely Google-free (not based on AOSP) Harmony OS NEXT, was revealed in January this year, and the first version was released at the beginning of summer beta version. With Harmony OS NEXT, Huawei promises nothing less than a unified operating system that runs on almost everything, which will form the software basis of almost all products manufactured by the company in the future (smartphones, tablets, PCs, wearable devices, cars, etc.) will give
According to figures from July, the Chinese HarmonyOS system is already running on more than 900 million devices in China, and its pace of growth does not seem to be slowing down. HarmonyOS has already surpassed Apple’s iOS market share in China in the first quarter.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
