Sugar-free Windows, as predicted
                   
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zdnet.com     May 16, 2008            

As Ivan Krstić predicted in his May 13th blog post (see "Intense and really thoughtful ranting from the OLPC front"), the OLPC XO will start shipping with Windows XP, minus the Sugar interface and open source tools that allow full implementation of the XO hardware (e.g., mesh networking). ... [read full story]                    


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