Microsoft trials XP on XO laptop

[JohnnyMalaria]

BBC News - Technology[/url]]
Microsoft is to begin field tests of Windows XP working on the so-called $100 laptop, or XO, early in 2008.
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The XO is the work of the One Laptop Per Child project to boost access to technology in the developing world by building a low-cost laptop designed for educational uses.

It has been pioneered by a not-for-profit group led by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab.
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The XO laptop runs Linux, an open source operating system which costs nothing for schools around the world to use.

If schools and governments wanted to use XP on an XO machine, they would have to buy a license.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7130637.stm[/url]

[DereX888]

...and that way the so-called $100 laptop that already costs $200 will cost $300 (or more).
Next step is to add Microsoft Office, and voila - the $100 laptop costs now $400 and no longer serves the purpose it was designed for... but hey, when they first created the electric massager they didnt knew either it'll evolve to vibrator, a device blessed by so many poor uncared-for women world-wide So who knows what good may come out from this OLPC crap + Msoft crap...



(edit:
usually crap + crap = more crap, so... )