My understanding is that although Windows is available, there have been no sales; deployments have preferred Sugar.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Sascha Silbe<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:45:58AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > >>> """ >>> 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 for >>> the XO. It works well and now needs Sugar on top of it (so to speak). >>> """ >> >> That quotation is entirely correct according to my understanding. > > 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. > > 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 > > CU Sascha > > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJKbu0/AAoJELpz82VMF3DaqnoIAJzywyGX2hKRg3la1Gmdtp5b > BGqx5xHuo3Eh5zM7jV68wK9+oLxzdpCkXZydalLJrD3yK0SWUACPtlXUYvXj3ecE > KGrXtoLB1vNFU7WRqD2ICta30zdqgvYqMc1oa63JGYhJFSmQS6hSKI/5hoiOsPp6 > KOwV6h1/xjnCgD1GQqMC/j60jZDbCuXnFTbOUXOo5PMRed56S1XaChTnYmHXhhm6 > ze051qKVMKRoaIxm+Fpf6vwgymGCIpbY28aMZVHu4fkqihvSVpQJfG/58ME5yYv9 > 9nELomLfp8vDBTksy8SWTbAh6YqPKYv8JYkL2jkfCCUsTq0vv9NZCalR4hKqVYw= > =LPTl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
