After U.S. sanctions tighten further, Huawei is reportedly preparing an alternative to Windows with Harmony OS 2.0. Intended for the brand’s laptops, this would be a first for the Chinese manufacturer.
Huawei is said to be launching a new laptop, the MateBook X, next Wednesday, August 19, which could bring an unexpected surprise at the operating system level. To circumvent an increasingly stringent embargo, Huawei is preparing a new version of its Harmony OS 2.0 operating system, which could replace Windows in its computers.
It is through a post on Weibo that we learn that Huawei would be preparing a new version of Harmony OS that would not be aimed at smartphones but rather at the Chinese manufacturer’s tablets and computers. The launch of the system could coincide with the arrival of HMS Core 5.0 (Huawei Mobile Services), the equivalent for Huawei of Google Mobile Services that manage location, payment or notifications in the background. HMS is now said to be building a base of over 700 million monthly users and integrated into over 80,000 applications designed by 1.6 million developers.
It remains to be seen whether this new operating system will be used only in the Chinese market – the most likely hypothesis – or whether Huawei will decide to move away from Windows 10 on a global scale on all its products. In any case, this marks another step in Huawei’s desire to offer its own ecosystem following the introduction of App Gallery earlier this year, its alternative store to the Google Play Store.
