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China has disclosed plans to move its systems to a state-endorsed version of Linux by 2020. The plan is to replace Windows-powered machines at a rate of 15 percent per year, give or take 10 percent, over five years. Recently, China had announced the ban of Windows 8 in the country accusing Microsoft of spying the China government and businesses via the operating system.It has now been confirmed that Professor Ni Guangnan, of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has designed a roll out program that has been passed by the government and will see all government servers, mainframes and individual machines being replaced.