Baidu, the ten-year-old leading Chinese search engine firm, is developing a new mobile operating system, like Android or Windows, the Chinese media reports.

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Thus, even if Venus never makes a big impact on China's Internet market, simply embedding Windows CE in millions of Chinese consumer products will create momentum that can only help the marketing of Windows CE elsewhere.

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Nor are they necessarily comprehensive: Nachi fixed only the English, Chinese and Korean versions of Windows.

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Around us, stores in the Chinese-dominated downtown remain shuttered, the windows above blank and empty behind bars of iron.

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If Alice comes with us, Bennie will take his break and share a pork bun in the Chinese bakery next door, while the fog gallops past the windows.

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Even more damning, analysts are calling for a decline in PC and laptop sales for the holiday season (and Chinese New Year) on the heels of the release of Windows 8.

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Windows has long been the dominant platform, and the number of Apple computers is relatively small since most Chinese considered it to be expensive and the number of applications available limited.

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