Huawei is preparing the launch of a new laptop, without Windows this time. The Chinese brand will be released in the end of May a PC equipped with Harmonyos 5, its own operating system. The reason: its license to use Windows expired last March, and the American sanctions prevent it from renewing it.
A Huawei laptop without windows? It’s soon
This is not the first time that Huawei has offered something other than Windows on his machines – some have already turned under Linux – but it is the first time that she pushes her own bone as much on a PC. Harmonyos has existed since 2019 on other devices, such as connected televisions or smartphones, and this new version, nicknamed “Harmonyos Next”, aims to unify all Huawei devices under one and the same system.
The future PC has no name or official technical sheet yet, but we already know some elements. First, he will turn with Harmonyos 5, designed to be coherent with what we already find on Huawei phones. There is an interface that draws ideas on the side of MacOS, with a dock, smartphone -like icons, and well smoothed navigation.
On the software side, Huawei integrated its Celia vocal assistant, who knows how to do rather practical things: create slides for presentations, summarize a meeting or even search in your files. And even without Word or Excel, you will have enough to work: WPS Office (the Chinese equivalent of Microsoft Office) is there, like Dingtalk (a slack designed by Alibaba). There are also already more than 2,000 apps planned to turn on the system by the end of the year, some of which came directly from the mobile world such as Rednote or Bilibili.
And good news: the machine will be able to run most of the classic devices (keyboard, mouse, external screen, etc.), but also a little more exotic printers or graphics tablets.
Huawei does not hide it: the goal is to build an apple ecosystem, with a homemade bone that runs everywhere, from smartphone to computer via the connected car. Harmonyos also begins to make his hole in China: he exceeded iOS at the end of 2024 with 19 % of mobile market share. And this new PC is one more step in this strategy.
Will that be enough to convince users to let go of Windows? In China, probably. Elsewhere, it’s less sure. But Huawei has clearly decided to trace its route, with or without Microsoft in the PC world, and without Android in the mobile universe.
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