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Microsoft Demonstrates Windows XP on the XO

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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RE: Hard to Blame

by tomcat on Sat 17th May 2008 02:53 UTC in reply to "Hard to Blame"

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2006-01-06

I can understand the head of XO switching to Windows to reach his goal of distributing the laptop to as many people as possible. I do think he misled a *lot* of people who put in a *lot* of time to work on this, though. The people who helped develop the original XO/Sugar did a lot of work for free and most, if not all, had no direct benefit.

Why can't the kids who are interested in running Linux w/Sugar install it? There's nothing stopping them.

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RE[2]: Hard to Blame

by testman on Sat 17th May 2008 03:24 in reply to "RE: Hard to Blame"

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2007-10-15

OSS advocates love to talk about free-choice, so long as that choice is also OSS.

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RE[3]: Hard to Blame

by Alleister on Sat 17th May 2008 07:10 in reply to "RE[2]: Hard to Blame"

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2006-05-29

Yes, good that those children have choosen to use Windows without any kind of learning software but with office 2003 instead. Oh wait, they didn't choose anything. Wierd isn't it?
And it wasn't my choice that Microsoft put pressure on Hardware vendors back in the days not to include BeOS or they would be facing much higher license costs from Microsoft in the future.

So what choice are you talking about? The choice that constantly is getting made for me by bribed or intimidated people?

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RE[3]: Hard to Blame

by KenJackson on Sun 18th May 2008 03:40 in reply to "RE[2]: Hard to Blame"

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2005-07-18

... and on top of this, they are learning how to use Office which is crucial in this day and age if we want these children to aspire to more than simply farming and manual labour.

Microsoft Office is crucial?

Perhaps you mean it is crucial that the monopoly be extended because there is a monopoly. There is more than a one office suite around and a number that are adequate. It would have been better to use this as a tool to show the value of the Open Document Format standard for exchanging documents.

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