Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has criticized the computers' design, including its lack of a hard disk drive — though many people in the tech world believed he was more irked by the laptops' use of Linux, the free, open-source system that competes with Gates' proprietary Windows systems.
[...] >> Negroponte expressed frustration with Gates in particular, saying that the $100 laptop >> designers are still working with Microsoft to develop a version of the Windows CE >> >> >> operating system that could run the machines. >> "Geez, so why criticize me in public?" Negroponte said. > Microsoft did not immediately return calls for comment. > A second OS for the $100 laptop? WTF? If being in the third row is being close to Negroponte, I can respond :-). He did say it. He also said that they will/did Geode prototype boards so that they could bring up Win CE. My guess is this is part of the "let the customer decide what software to ship" idea. I didn't get the impression that significant numbers of $100 laptops would ship with Win CE. He also used 500 Mhz number. That's AMD marketing talk. Except for jg's writeup, I think most of the laptop.org uses 500 Mhz. He said that the talk was being taped. If someone finds a link, could they post it? -- olpc-software mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software
