Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 16th May 2008 09:29 UTC
Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child project have announced an agreement to work together on getting Windows XP available on the XO laptop, with trials starting in June 2008, and the RTM date set for August or September. Microsoft also demonstrated Windows XP Professional and Office 2003 running on the XO laptop - fully featured.
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Ok so I am not the biggest fan of both MS and OLPC but as a windows user for ... i don't even want to count the years, I have one question. How did the great team from MS deal with the virus/malware problem that seems to hunt Windows everywhere? Last I checked the network that the OLPC relies on will allow for malware and viruses to spread much like viruses do in the human population. And since there are no doctors, medicine, or antibodies you can imagine what would happen to most of the OLPCs. Or maybe I'm mistaken and MS has finally decided to create a decent AV solution. ( not likely ) It is one thing testing a computer behind a hundred thousand firewall inside the MS network and it is completely different thing testing it in the wild with no protection whatsoever.
Even if all the other problems were gone the fact that the design of the OLPC allow for whole networks to be crippled by a single virus should be scary enough. Yes with linux is almost a nonissue at the moment but this is hardly the case with windows xp. You don't need to be looking for trouble because it finds you on it's own. And you need only one kids system to be infected in order to start the equivalent of a pandemic.
Now how's that for overlooking the details MS?