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One Laptop per Child shipping with Windows XP
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LOL, Apple ever giving away cheap laptops? Steve Jobs would cry at the thought of it. I know that makes him sound heartless but come on lets take a joke.
Cute laptop, lol. But a laptop is better then no laptop, as long as it works.
Cute laptop, lol. But a laptop is better then no laptop, as long as it works.
It's a stripped down version. Not sure what the capabilities are after.
But Governments get to give their kids skills conforming to "world industrial standards".
And Microsoft gets to give these kids "a drug to hook them onto".
According to this:
http://gizmodo.com/391054/windows-xp-on-olpc-xo-laptop-now-official
...it costs and extra $3 versus the Linux installation.
I can't imagine how little money MS is making from this relatively, but I suppose it's just to maintain a proprietary commercial standard. haha
It's a stripped down version. Not sure what the capabilities are after.
But Governments get to give their kids skills conforming to "world industrial standards".
And Microsoft gets to give these kids "a drug to hook them onto".
According to this:
http://gizmodo.com/391054/windows-xp-on-olpc-xo-laptop-now-official
...it costs and extra $3 versus the Linux installation.
I can't imagine how little money MS is making from this relatively, but I suppose it's just to maintain a proprietary commercial standard. haha
They have to do something with all those licenses.
It's a stripped down version. Not sure what the capabilities are after.
But Governments get to give their kids skills conforming to "world industrial standards".
And Microsoft gets to give these kids "a drug to hook them onto".
According to this:
http://gizmodo.com/391054/windows-xp-on-olpc-xo-laptop-now-official
...it costs and extra $3 versus the Linux installation.
I can't imagine how little money MS is making from this relatively, but I suppose it's just to maintain a proprietary commercial standard. haha
Actually, I spoke too soon. I guess they ultimately were able to get the full version onto the laptop with a larger SD card.
@ 00:50, that guy says that its a full XP and Office installation. It's actually pretty cool, it turns into a low power B/W reader in sleep mode for 20 hours. I didn't know XP can do that.
Logically, it makes sense to put XP on it. Most of the world uses XP so if kids are going to learn how to use a computer and function with computers in the business world they need to know XP.
I'm surprised you can't find anything. I figure by now they would even float pirate instructions for ppl to load XP onto the Linux ones. For some ppl around the world $3 is a lot of money! I remember that article where 244 official copies of Vista were sold in China!