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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."

2 of 392 comments (clear)

  1. Change the MS icon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The MS icon with Bill Gates should be changed.

    Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft so he is no longer involved with MS decisions.

    I think that is NOT FAIR to use his image to represent Microsoft anymore.

  2. Re:Open Spurce? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, I guess you got a new thesaurus as an early Christmas present.

    Get off your soap box.