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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. Re:Open Spurce? by zootm · · Score: 4, Informative

    However, the article here talks about what is pre-installed.

    To be fair, it only says that Microsoft want to "make [Windows] available" on the device, not pre-install it. There's no indication whatsoever in the article that Microsoft want to pre-install it, although one could obviously speculate that they'd like to sell units with Windows pre-installed to governments, this is not mentioned in the article.