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Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?

                   
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May 18, 2008
        
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A former ZDNet blogger, George Ou, blogged some thoughts on recent developments at OLPC and Larry Dignan's and my concerns about Windows XP on the XO. His blog was titled "Children won't have a say on whether Windows goes on the OLPC but so what?" and he asked, in... [read full story]                    

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What is the future of Sugar?

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May 18, 2008
        

Walter Bender, who recently left OLPC amid ideological differences over the future of the Sugar interface and the use of Windows on the XO laptop, launched a new foundation last week to advance the UI independent of the XO. The Sugar Labs Foundation intends to continue working with OLPC,...

OLPC to ship with Windows XP

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May 18, 2008
        

Microsoft teams up with One Laptop per Child project. Microsoft has joined forces with the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project in a bid to provide inexpensive portable PCs to schoolchildren in developing countries. The announcement means that the XO notebook will run Windows as well as the OLPC's...

                   

Bender forms group to promote OLPC's Sugar UI

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May 18, 2008
        

Computerworld Buyer's Guide - Vendors Matched to this Article Former One Laptop Per Child President of software and content Walter Bender has launched Sugar Labs, an organization that will promote the development of the open-source user interface originally developed for the XO laptop. Sugar Labs...

                   

Bender forms group to promote OLPC's Sugar UI

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May 18, 2008
        

Former OLPC executive Walter Bender forms a nonprofit organization to promote the open-source development of Sugar, the user interface found on XO laptops. Former One Laptop Per Child President of software and content Walter Bender has launched Sugar Labs, an organization that will promote the...

OLPC's A Con - Former Insider

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May 18, 2008
        

The former security director of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit has blasted the project for losing sight of its goals, accusing chairman Nicholas Negroponte of deceiving the public. It's all about shipping kit, says Ivan Krstić in an incendiary essay.

                   

Design accolades for One Laptop Per Child

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May 18, 2008
        

The nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child has scooped most international design prizes and dazzled design conferences with its project to develop a $100 laptop for the world's poorest children, even as it has also been hammered by the tech industry and its educational methodologies attacked.

                   

Cheap smartphones for the poor, is it possible?

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May 18, 2008
        

sma Not many of you probably ever heard of Microsoft’s project called Fone+, it’s understandable since Microsoft is not exactly bragging a project like this. The main idea of Fone+ was inspired with the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, where OLPC has been pretty successful in third-world...

XO Laptop to offer Windows OS option

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May 17, 2008
        

XO Laptop to offer Windows OS option Software giant Microsoft is finally collaborating with the One Laptop Per Child Foundation and would be providing a version of their Windows operating system that would run on the XO Laptop. The 100 dollar laptop was originally designed to run only the open...

                   

mm382: One Laptop Per Child gets Windows

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May 17, 2008
        

MUDGE’s Musings We return to a popular (at least to yr (justifiably) humble svt) topic here in this nanocorner of the ‘Sphere©. Previously: One Laptop Per Child @ L-HC mm088: Meet the XO mm089: Amateur mapmaking... mm099: A $99 Desktop... mm149: India’s take... mm153: By a Laptop, Get one......

itp.net: Microsoft has spent a year to make Windows XP compatible with the XO laptop, although not all features have been enabled yet itp.net

One Laptop Per Child initiative to offer Windows XP option

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May 17, 2008
        

By Mark Sutton on Sunday, May 18, 2008 Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative have reached an agreement to provide the Windows XP operating system on the low-cost PC. The deal will see trials of Windows running on the XO laptop in several key emerging markets from June. The XO...

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