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Microsoft Wants OLPC System to Run Windows XP

Posted by Zonk on from the oh-now-they-want-in dept.

Stony Stevenson passed us a link to an IT News story about Microsoft's recent request that the folks behind the XO laptop redesign it to suit their needs. The company now wants to be able to run Windows XP on the highly-publicized and inexpensive portable. "Microsoft general manager ... Utzschneider says a shrunken version of Windows XP could potentially run on 2 Gbytes of flash memory. The XO, however, can only hold 1 Gbyte. As a result, Microsoft wants the XO's designers to add a slot through which more memory can be added via a secure digital (SD) card, Utzschneider said. Microsoft's renewed interest in participating in OLPC might be viewed by skeptics as an admission that a rival offering for developing markets called Classmate — which uses an Intel processor on Microsoft software — has failed to catch on."

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  1. OVPC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then they will have to change it to One Virus Per Child.

    1. Re:OVPC by Tarlus · · Score: 5, Funny

      OVPC would still be inaccurate...
      Because guaranteed, there would be more than one. ;)

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  2. Stop the presses! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    OLPC with Windows XP!

    Now children can read their books by cool blue light! Once the capabilities of the OLPC are bumped up to run Windows comfortably, they will also be able to heat their food* on the machine itself!

    * Microsoft has declined to provide food.

  3. OLPC's response by bhmit1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    1 Gbyte should be enough for anyone :-)

  4. Re:umm.. giving it away, MS? by jav1231 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah! good point. They didn't eventually start charging for it. But oh do we still pay! :p