Of course not! This is a sub notebook and vista is too big and slow to run on it!
Actually Microsoft has released (and is going to support) a version of XP special for this kind of notebooks in fears that this market will get dominated by Linux.
Google has already done that (created a better/faster file search engine) and microsoft intentionally restricts it from its full potentionals. Thats what this fuss is all about.
The people behind OLPC have always stated that Linux was not chosen just for being free in the sense of free beer but mostly because it is free in the sense of free speech.
Even if a Microsoft operating system was given to OLPC for free, it still would not have any chance unless it completely changed its license. (Which would definitely not happen!)
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so, no Vista option?
Of course not! This is a sub notebook and vista is too big and slow to run on it! Actually Microsoft has released (and is going to support) a version of XP special for this kind of notebooks in fears that this market will get dominated by Linux.
Google has already done that (created a better/faster file search engine) and microsoft intentionally restricts it from its full potentionals. Thats what this fuss is all about.
The people behind OLPC have always stated that Linux was not chosen just for being free in the sense of free beer but mostly because it is free in the sense of free speech. Even if a Microsoft operating system was given to OLPC for free, it still would not have any chance unless it completely changed its license. (Which would definitely not happen!)