Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Dec 2006 17:35 UTC
Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child notebook computers, OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at the NetEvents conference in Hong Kong on Saturday. "I have known Bill Gates his entire adult life. We talk, we meet one-on-one, we discuss this project," said Negroponte, vnunet.com can reveal. "We put in an SD slot in the machine just for Bill. We didn't need it but the OLPC machines are at Microsoft right now, getting Windows put on them."
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2005-07-26
It really isn't a "mind change". Despite large technology leaders like Intel and Microsoft making disparaging remarks, Nicholas Negroponte has continued to work with Microsoft on this unit. In this report:
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/6022.html
he indicates that he is continuing to work with Microsoft, and has even delivered prototype boards for them to work with and make drivers for a Win CE version.
So I guess this is no surprise to me (though it did take me a few minutes to dig up that older reference from 6 months ago).