You might remember that Huawei laptops were pulled from Microsoft's online store in May, following the US government's blacklisting of Chinese devices, but these laptops have resurfaced on the market. market. Microsoft Store. However, this is not a positive development for Huawei and will only be a temporary situation. According to The Verge, Microsoft is considering a ban on Huawei devices by the Trump administration and has decided that it is acceptable to sell existing stock; but only that In a statement, Microsoft said: "We are evaluating and will continue to address the many business, technical, and regulatory complexities arising from the recent addition of Huawei to the list of entities in the United States Export Administration Regulations Department. of Commerce."As a result, we are resuming the sale of existing inventory of Huawei devices in the Microsoft Store."Three Huawei laptops are now listed in the US Microsoft Store.The Huawei MateBook 13, MateBook D models and Matebook X Pro are available for purchase (although the latter is out of stock with the Core i5 model at the time of writing.) Beyond that, Huawei's new laptops won't be available to the general public in the States. United Once these models are gone, this is your luck.
Sold, but surely supported?
Tempted to buy one of these laptops? You would not be alone. The MateBook 13 is number two on our list of the best laptops, and based on our review, we found the Huawei MateBook D to offer solid performance at an impressive price. But if you're seriously considering pulling the trigger on one of these Huawei machines, you may need to consider another major caveat: It's not yet clear whether Microsoft will support these devices at the same time. future in terms of Windows updates. In May, when we asked Microsoft if it would block Windows 10 updates for Huawei laptops because of Trump's new policy, the company simply replied that it had nothing to share. And it's quite worrying that Microsoft won't commit to a decision to prevent updates from reaching Huawei hardware. Obviously, if that's the case, these devices will still be terribly security-challenged because they won't be patched against the latest vulnerabilities and the like (or feature updates, for that matter). Don't forget, though, that it's not confirmed that Microsoft will prevent updates from reaching Huawei machines. Anyway, nothing is confirmed, we have to so I hope common sense prevails in this case. It would certainly be paradoxical to put Huawei on the ban list for national security reasons, and then block updates to a batch of laptops that were previously sold in the United States before this controversy n & # 39; 39, leading to serious security issues... When Huawei laptops were sold before the "entity list" came into play, Microsoft had no idea what was coming. However, with the sale of this remaining stock, he is perfectly aware of the situation of these devices and if the company was selling them without knowing if it could help them for customers in the end, well, it would be unthinkable surely? It seems to us that Microsoft really should have cleared up this support issue before these machines return to their online store.