Star Windows To Run on OLPC Laptop
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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by Mitarai on Tue 5th Dec 2006 18:03 UTC
Mitarai
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Any details on the mindchange?

How about millions of potential users?

Edited 2006-12-05 18:03

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by t4inted on Tue 5th Dec 2006 18:12 in reply to "..."
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2006-11-24

"How about millions of potential users?"

I meant the mindchange on OLPCs side, not Microsofts.

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