Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Dec 2006 17:35 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems 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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RE: Tell me..
by ronaldst on Tue 5th Dec 2006 18:29 UTC in reply to "Tell me.."
ronaldst
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2005-06-29

That's exactly what I was wondering.

How will those kids know how to fix their hosed Linux OLPC?

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