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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. Re:Open Spurce? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 1, Redundant
    I think Nicholas Negroponte is just having a little fun at the expense of MicroSoft.

    But this is the second iteration of window-on-olpc. The last one was about a year ago. Presumably NN wants some charity from the Gates Foundation to help boost the project.

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  2. Memory or Storage? by SeaFox · · Score: 0, Redundant
    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.

    Geez, can we not mix up our terminology like we're a bunch of noobs? Does Windows require quite a bit more memory? Or hard drive space?