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Colombia Signs Up For OLPC Laptops With Windows

Posted by timothy on from the buncha-the-green-ones-hold-the-sugar dept.

Reader Cowards Anonymous writes with this excerpt from Good Gear Guide: "Colombia will become the second country to use the One Laptop Per Child Project's (OLPC) XO laptops running Microsoft Windows XP in schools after signing an agreement for pilot programs in two towns. Schools in the towns of Quetame and Chia will be outfitted with the small green XO laptops developed by the OLPC. The pilot programs are expected to expand over time."

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  1. Chia... by 6Yankee · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...I'm sure I had a pet from there once.

  2. joy! by CheshireFerk-o · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i wonder how much cocaine u can stuff into an XO?

  3. FUDGE by scientus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The decision to put Windows on the laptops came about because officials in some countries feared a non-Windows laptop would ill prepare students for the real world, in which Microsoft software dominates.

    We run windows because everybody develops for windows.

    We develop for windows because everybody runs windows

    Don't some people realize they are being shafted with an inferior product, of which they hve no idea the quality of? Also what makes Colombia thing windows is the so dominent, even microsoft uses FreeBSD for mail servers, etc. This is only pure FUD toward these nations.