Microsoft Wants OLPC System to Run Windows XP

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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Re:This may be going against the group think, but

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Linux is to computers today what DOS was to computers in the late 1980s when I was getting into them that is one of the best ways to describe it and one of the reasons why though i find some things cool about linux and don't dis on it's upsides I don't see myself using it (outside of work) for quite a while- plain and simple-no one who has an interest in multimedia development (for creators of media) has particularly dug into it the way that amiga and atari was dug into in the late 80s or MS was dug into in the early to mid 90s so for those of us that use our machines for that we are stuck with a lame duck when it comes to lunux vs. all of the application support that comes with MS (though not in vista- we have been left behind there).