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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. A trap? by Metteyya · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Bundled with level of corruption in OLPC-buying countries it seems pretty scary.