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Microsoft has told all its employees in China that they will soon only be allowed to use iPhones for work purposes. The ban on Android devices is part of a security-related Microsoft initiative for providing a unified way of managing and verifying employee identities.

The mandate, set to come into effect in September 2024, was announced in an internal memo seen by Bloomberg News. It will require Microsoft's China-based workers to verify their identities when logging in to work computers or phones. The change is part of Microsoft's global Secure Future Initiative that is intended, among other things, to ensure that all staff use the Microsoft Authenticator password manager and Identity Pass app.

While Apple's iOS store is available in China, Google Play isn't. Local smartphone giants such as Huawei and Xiaomi operate their own platforms in the country, but Microsoft has chosen to block access from those companies' devices to its corporate resources because they lack Google's mobile services, reads the memo.

Any staff in the country using Android handsets, including those from Huawei or Xiaomi, will be provided with an iPhone 15, as a one-time purchase. The Redmond giant is designating collection points across China where employees can pick up their iPhones.

Microsoft is also introducing the iPhones-only rule in Hong Kong, despite the Google Play Store being available in the special administrative region of China.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That's not how it works in "communist" China.

Workers don't have too many rights.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Workers don’t have too many rights.

Maybe not stellar but still better than quite a few of the 135 countries surveyed by this NGO in 2022. Behind Brazil, Russia and South Africa but ahead of India. Better than the so-called "land of the free" also, so maybe the joke's on them?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a lot of whataboutism you're doing there.

[–] demonsword@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

sorry if the data I brought disturbed your China bashing, you're free to ignore it

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh poor China! How dare I bash such a paradise (non-Han Chinese excepted)!