One Laptop Per Child Now Teamed With Microsoft
by Brandon Miles ~ May 16th, 2008. Filed under: .According to the AP, the One Laptop Per Child project is about to see if a partnership with Microsoft will help them further the spread of their inexpensive laptops to children across the globe. From the article…
Microsoft and the laptop organization announced Thursday that the nonprofit’s green-and-white “XO” computers now can run Windows in addition to their homegrown interface, which is built on the open Linux operating system. That had been anticipated for months, but it amounts to a major shift.
Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the laptop project — which aims to produce $100 computers but now sells them at $188 — acknowledged that having Windows as an option could reassure education ministers who have hesitated to buy XOs with its new interface, called Sugar. Negroponte had hoped to sell several million laptops by now; instead he has gotten about 600,000 orders.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:19 pm
[...] at an amazing $75 per unit (down from $200), the new X02 machines from Microsoft’s partnership with the One Laptop Per Child folks looks pretty amazing. The device is now expected to run a [...]