On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:45:58AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
Sure it is. But it omits the entire reasoning (BIOS vs. Open Firmware -> Linux/Sugar won't work anymore) for spending OLPC resources on getting Windows to run on the XO-1."""For this reason, Sugar needs a wider basis, to run on more Linux platforms and to run under Windows. We have been engaged in discussions with Microsoft for several months, to explore a dual boot version of the XO. Some of you have seen what Microsoft developed on their own forthe XO. It works well and now needs Sugar on top of it (so to speak). """That quotation is entirely correct according to my understanding.
But it doesn't really matter much as Charles Kane makes it clear in todays interview [1] that OLPC is now actually selling XOs with Windows on them:
"""After the success and the impact we have had [Bill Gates] would take it very seriously now and we have an agreement with Microsoft so we are selling Windows XP as part of our dual-boot offering with the computer.
"""[1] http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25843285-24169,00.html
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