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Microsoft Looking to Run Windows on OLPC

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the one-thousand-dollar-laptop-program dept.

pete314 writes "Microsoft has been provided with a number of test models of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop per Child computers and is trying to get Windows installed on them. The current design runs a custom version of Red Hat's Fedora Linux. Running Windows will take quite a bit of additional memory: the OLPC has 512Mb of Flash, where XP requires a minimum of 1.5Gb storage."

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  1. Superb.... by alpha713 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One Laptop $100, One Copy of Windows ~$150, Seeing Microsoft Profit from the Third World...Priceless

  2. Re:Just sick by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sorry, but how is this anything other than inflammatory, homophobic and just plain wrong?

    The bible is a book of fairy stories. It's not real. Get that? Nobody goes around acting like Snow White or Little Red Riding Hood were real. When christians start acting like the bible is real, then they deserve whatever they get from Rational people.

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