Nan, I'm really sorry that you want to run windows and can't. You're planning on doing something incredibly awesome with your machines this summer and I really want to do everything we can to help you. I'm sorry that the tone of your response wasn't as respectful as it should have been, or as informative. Your response was a form letter from our volunteer help staff the Support-gang (of which I have also been a member).
What the email should have told you, especially for your non-typical case is that while windows is *going* to be deployed and Microsoft has a few machine that work now. It's not an easy process or one that OLPC can do right now. It would involve some hardware hacking on the machine, reflashing, etc etc. And a lot of that custom software isn't available to me or anyone at OLPC yet. Also a concern is the special version of windows for the XO is only being sold in developing nations. Presumably it will be sold individually (they're only $3), and not just in large bulk purchases. But I'm not sure if or when that's going to happen. Even getting ahold of a pirate version of their scaled down version of XP isn't something I would know how to do yet. For the future, I'm not sure if Microsoft is going to be willing to provide the support to let individuals hack their machines to run windows. But if/when this does happen I would be more than happy to help you out with your machines in Kyrgystan with whatever documentation I have available to me if that is what you really want. I'm not convinced that Windows is going to run on the XO very well or that it is going to be as good as the current Sugar. Really, again I'm sorry if OLPC's response offended you. That wasn't it's intention at all. I hope plans for your trip to Kyrgystan are going well, and feel free to drop me a line anytime if you have any more questions like this. I'll be happy to find things out for you. All the best, Seth Woodworth On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Nan A. Canter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How typical a response!!!!! > > This organization continues to treat those of us who > supported the G1G1 program early on with distain, to > say the least..... > > My three OLPCs will go not to my children but to > elementary students in a distant and isolated farming > community in eastern kyrgyzsan.... > > I feel duped, used, and almost "taken".... not a great > way for an organization like yours to treat your most > ardent supporters.... Sorry i can't afford to donate > 100!!!!! > > nana canter > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Sun May 25 16:54:16 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: >> > Note: forwarded message attached. >> > >> > >> > will the laptop we got be able to get the >> mocrosoft >> > program installed? >> >> OLPC has no plans to sell XO laptops to US >> customers. The Windows on XO >> program was developed by Microsoft for use on >> country sized deployments >> in developing countries. >> >> -- >> Alan - OLPC Support Volunteer >> XO user guide: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_Guide >> > > > > Nan A. Canter > Phone: (001) 212 666-5494 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.playpumps.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
