Re: [sugar] Microsoft

2008-05-16 Thread Nicholas Negroponte
At 07:27 PM 5/15/2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote: My copy of this mail does not have the attachment of the mission statement. Mission statement.doc Description: MS-Word document ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Microsoft

2008-05-15 Thread Nicholas Negroponte
One Laptop per Child is announcing an agreement with Microsoft to make a dual boot, Linux/Windows, version of the XO laptop. In addition, our intention is to engage one or more third parties to port Sugar to run on Windows in order to reach a wider installed base of laptops. In the meanwhile,

on Sugar

2008-04-23 Thread Nicholas Negroponte
People keep asking me: Yes, OLPC’s commitment to Sugar has changed. It is now larger, not smaller. Contrary to inferences drawn by Walter’s departure, the press and venerable sources such as OLPC News, we are scaling Sugar up, not down. Let me explain. Sugar is a very good idea, less than