Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 27th Apr 2007 07:10 UTC
"The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface." More here.
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2007-03-26
To clear some points up (regarding which version of Windows this system will be running and license costs) a few have asked/commented on:
"XO's developers have been working with Microsoft Corp. so a version of Windows can run on the machines as well. It could be the $3 software package that Microsoft announced last week for governments that subsidize student computers. It includes Windows XP Starter Edition and some of Microsoft's "productivity" software."
This was directly quoted from the linked article and anyone who bothered to read this article before posting speculation would have found their questions were already answered
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and those of you who have joked about if it will run Linux/BSD. It's default operating system /IS/ Linux (a custom build of Red Hat) - and again all this is in the linked article.
Edited 2007-04-27 13:33