China blasts MSFT’s Windows 8 operating system—publicly: http://online.wsj.com/articles/windows-8-faces-new-criticism-in-china-1401882772 China's powerful state-run television broadcaster criticized Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 8 operating system in a national news show on Wednesday… In its widely watched noon news broadcast, China Central Television aired a segment that questioned the operating system's security. It quoted people it identified as experts who said that an operating system's maker can obtain user data including phone numbers and bank-account information. "Whoever controls the operating system can control all the data on the computers using it," it said.