<i>The move is meant to insulate the country from being cut off by Microsoft.</i><p>More likely is the fact that Microsoft has been suborned by the three-letter organisations over the years to supply them with information.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY</a>
It's pretty funny to see Linux become the OS that is being imposed by government/corporate after all of these years of Microsoft being in that role.