[svlug] Windows coming to the XO laptop? maybe a good thing?

[Paul Cubbage]

I agree with the sentiment but given todays news (asserting) that XO is
struggling for sales, and possibly in trouble, this should help the project
take off.

Th9ird world governments are often not so good for doing (honest) business.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/latestheadlines/ci_7285872?nclick_check=1

On 10/26/07, Kristian Erik Hermansen <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/07, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> > <Begin quote>
> > The world's largest software company is now working to adapt a basic
> > version of Windows XP so it is compatible with the non-profit One Laptop
> > per Child Foundation's small green- and-white XO laptop.
> >
> > "We're spending a non-trivial amount of money on it," Microsoft
> > Corporate VP Will Poole said in an interview Thursday. "We're working
> > hard. But we're still at least a few months away."
> > <End quote>
>
> FUCK!!!
> --
> Kristian Erik Hermansen
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