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Give your grad a laptop

usatoday.com
May 15, 2008
        
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It's become a rite of passage in many families: When you graduate from high school, you get a new laptop. This is especially true for kids going to college. Next, you must choose an operating system. Microsoft Windows is by far the most popular, but your graduate may prefer a Mac. The open-source... [read full story]                    

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Literacy before laptops

 guardian.co.uk May 18, 2008
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“$100 Laptop” Embraces Windows XP [Voices]

 allthingsd.com May 16, 2008
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'$100 laptop' platform moves on

newsvine.com
May 17, 2008
        

The BBC reports: An independent effort to develop the software originally designed for the $100 laptop has been launched. Sugar Labs will take the laptop's innovative interface, known as Sugar, to the "next level of usability and utility", according to its founders.

XO Laptop to Run Windows

pcworld.com
May 17, 2008
        

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp reached an agreement to make available its Windows operating system software for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO Laptop, the company said on Thursday. Microsoft was not part of the project started by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor...

Low-cost laptops to get XP

news24.com
May 17, 2008
        

San Francisco - The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project will install Windows XP on its low-cost laptops for students in developing countries, according to a joint announcement on Friday. The operating system will be offered as an alternative to the project's home-grown Linux-based operating...

                   

$100 laptop nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft

keralanext.com
May 17, 2008
        

BOSTON - The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren. Microsoft and the laptop organization announced Thursday that the...

Microsoft Windows to come on low-cost laptops

indiaenews.com
May 17, 2008
        

From correspondents in California, United States, 09:02 AM IST The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project will install Windows XP on its low-cost laptops for students in developing countries, according to a joint announcement Friday. The operating system will be offered as an alternative to the...

Microsoft Windows comes to green laptop

earthtimes.org
May 17, 2008
        

San Francisco - The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project will install Windows XP on its low-cost laptops for students in developing countries, according to a joint announcement Friday. The operating system will be offered as an alternative to the proj...

Business & Technology | Microsoft joining laptop crusade | Seattle Times Newspaper

afprc11.blogspot.com
May 16, 2008
        

"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...

'$100 laptop' to Run Windows

cdrinfo.com
May 16, 2008
        

The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren. Microsoft and the laptop organization announced Thursday that the nonprofit's green-and-white "XO" computers now can run Windows...

Microsoft Joins Effort for Laptops for Children

pcin.net
May 16, 2008
        

From the New York Times: After a years-long dispute, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child said Thursday that they had reached an agreement to offer Windows on the organization’s computers. Microsoft long resisted joining the ambitious project because its laptops...

'$100 laptop' embraces Windows XP

newsvine.com
May 16, 2008
        

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri May 16, 2008 9:25 AM EDT Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows available on the machines. The move was prompted by countries which demanded the operating system before placing...

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