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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2005-07-26
Now, they are "working with Microsoft to ensure that it can run Windows".
Your post, and others, seem to be a bit surprised at this "Windows" thing. It has been in the works for a while, with OLPC working with Microsoft a year ago.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/6022.html
Allowing Microsoft to have some early development units so they could work on Windows CE (or whatever other version) isn't a bad thing, nor it is really shocking.