Re: [silk] Photos of first OLPC pilot in India
More on OLPC *Microsoft about to join the OLPC program? *http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/334/C14281/* *Talk about strange bedfellows, but it would be a PR win for MSFT. However -- how could they run Windows on an XO without a full BIOS? Mr. Negroponte would have to back off from having a fully open source BIOS to make this happen, I'm guessing, not to mention backing off from the open source OS and apps Quote The word is that OLPC and Microsoft are now working very closely together to develop a dual-boot Windows/Linux system for the laptop. There are even reports that Mr. Negroponte, the man behind the OLPC program, has said that Windows is both successful and fast on the charming green machines. This move makes sense on several levels. - Unquote On Jan 7, 2008 7:35 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ego clashes perhaps. Venky On Jan 6, 2008 11:12 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Intel pulls out of OLPC. Why? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7171201.stm
Re: [silk] Photos of first OLPC pilot in India
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Valsa Williams wrote: | *Talk about strange bedfellows, but it would be a PR win for MSFT. | However -- how could they run Windows on an XO without a full BIOS? | Mr. Negroponte would have to back off from having a fully open source | BIOS to make this happen, I'm guessing, not to mention backing off | from the open source OS and apps http://radian.org/notebook/paradox-of-choice (off http://planet.laptop.org/) Yes, we’ve been meeting with Microsoft about their XP port. OLPC has not dedicated resources to this work. We are not contributing engineering time to it, considering it as part of our strategy, or getting ready to replace Sugar. The extent of our involvement is having several meetings with the Microsoft staff and allowing a Microsoft-paid technical writer to work from our offices in order to produce specifications that will aid the port — on the condition that the specifications are also released publicly (they’re being posted to our wiki.) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhvX4XQZpNTcrCzMRAvykAJ42e3fUR5ippvTgq4toQhjNsmSV3QCfUwUI Eu8xNnDkG8JmzkKEI1wps3g= =Y/wQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
