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Windows On XO Laptops
Talkback Redmond will not stand still when someone tries to rub their nose in the dirt. But, it is hard to understand how they can strip down XP to run on this small machine. More memory requirements, more storage space, looks like they would have used CE.
[October 26, 2007, 13:58]
Microsoft Officially Teams Up With OLPC
News The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft jointly announced on Thursday that the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries starting next month...
[May 16, 2008, 8:34]
Colombia To Trial OLPC Windows Laptop
News Microsoft has announced that Colombia will be the second country to pilot the use of One Laptop per Child's XO laptop in conjunction with Windows XP. Microsoft announced in September that Peru was the first country to sign up for the Windows-on-XO...
[November 12, 2008, 15:10]
Peru First To Trial OLPC Laptops With Windows
News Microsoft and the One Laptop per Child project announced on Monday that Peru will be the first country to try out XO laptops running Microsoft Windows as part of a nine-month pilot programme. Microsoft has been working for some time to port Windows...
[September 16, 2008, 11:30]
Microsoft Quashes Rumours Of Dual-boot XO Laptop
News Software giant Microsoft has said it rejected plans to develop a dual-boot iteration of Windows XP to run on One Laptop per Child XO machines, and instead is developing a version of XP specifically for the XO.
[January 11, 2008, 13:04]
OLPC Laptop Gets A Windows Makeover
News On the outside, the Windows version of the XO laptop looks just like the Linux model. The Windows version of the XO doesn't have so much of that child-orientated personality — although a child-orientated programming tool known as Scratch did...
[October 27, 2008, 7:59]
Negroponte: Windows Key To OLPC Philosophy
News Microsoft has always been working on Windows for the XO. We put the SD slot into our laptop over one year ago, for them," Negroponte said, explaining that the SD slot allows the XO's memory to be expanded, making it easier for users to run Windows.
[October 29, 2007, 8:15]
OLPC To Revive 'Give One, Get One' Scheme In US
News Microsoft has started making Windows available for the XO laptop in developing markets like Colombia and Peru. From Monday in the US, the One Laptop per Child project's XO laptop will be available through the 'Give One, Get One' programme once more...
[November 12, 2008, 14:31]
Let Laptop Battle Commence
Blog First impressions of the sturdy, blue-clad Classmate are of a more traditional notebook than the XO: their screens are of similar size at 7in.and 7.5in.respectively, and both use solid state storage, but the Classmate runs Windows XP rather than...
[February 12, 2008, 9:22]
Photos: OLPC, Classmate And Eee review
Reviews There are three different operating systems on view here: the XO runs a Red Hat Fedora 6-based version of Linux and the Sugar graphical user interface (GUI); the Classmate runs Windows XP (although some Linux distributions are also supported); and...
[March 3, 2008, 14:03]
Nimda Rampage Starts To Slow
News XO, which provides high-speed Net access to more than 32,000 customers via digital subscriber lines, said the congestion on the network led to slow Net access speeds for an undetermined number of customers.
[September 21, 2001, 9:27]
Introducing The OLPC's '$75 Laptop'
News Last week, the OLPC announced that it would offer a Windows-compatible version of the XO, long a Linux-only machine, for sale in several countries starting in June. Even with the price of what used to be known as the "$100 laptop" still hovering...
[May 22, 2008, 10:53]
OLPC 'Give One, Get One' Set To Launch In UK
News On Thursday last week, the founder and chairman of the OLPC project, Nicholas Negroponte, said that the XO version on sale via Amazon would not have the dual-boot facility that allows the laptop to run either Microsoft Windows or the OLPC's open...
[November 18, 2008, 16:25]
Photos: Nigerian Students Get To Grips With IT
News With the XO Children's Machine, OLPC hopes young students will have the tools to shape their own education. Hassounah explains that gaining the parents' understanding and support was crucial to choosing the school for the first deployment of the...
[April 12, 2007, 12:57]
OLPC And Intel Bury The Hatchet
News Intel's immediate effect on the OLPC project will be to improve the open-source software that ships with the XO laptop, said Walter Bender, president of software and content for the OLPC. At some point, Intel also wants its chips to be inside the...
[July 16, 2007, 8:18]
New Analyses Reveal Nimda's Tenacity
News XO Communications acknowledged on Friday that the company severed almost a quarter of its customers' Web servers from the Internet in an attempt to halt the deluge of data produced by the worm. Many of our customers are small businesses," XO...
[September 24, 2001, 9:41]
Do We Need A Campaign To Save XP?
Blog It's extremely Ironic that, while killing it off for business users with one hand, Microsoft is thinking of allowing XP to live on the OLPC XO - a laptop which originally chose Linux to bail out of Microsoft's expensive upgrade cycles.
[January 15, 2008, 11:51]
OLPC 'Give One, Get One' Scheme Comes To Europe
News Under the G1G1 scheme, people will be able to purchase an XO laptop, the price of which will also buy and send an XO to a child in a developing country. Negroponte wrote that technical support for users is still being worked out, and that Amazon...
[November 13, 2008, 11:32]
UK's Elonex Releases £99 OLPC Rival
News The One laptop is not the first low-cost laptop to be aimed at the educational market — the One Laptop per Child project's XO device, Asus's Eee PC and Intel's Classmate PC all fit the same bill. Referring to the device's use of Linux, the...
[February 18, 2008, 11:46]
High-quality Windows Experience?
Talkback High quality and Windows is a contradiction in terms. This is hilarious! What they will end up with is a slow running computer, subject to trojans, virus's, adware, and malware. Can you imagine someone who has never seen a computer before getting...
[January 11, 2008, 13:39]
