OLPC to ditch Linux in favor of Windows XP
April 23, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under The Free World., laptops
After reading the articles on Computerworld and the Inquirer, I felt disappointed. Why? Because it seems that the OLPC team is backing off from their original plans. They are now thinking about using Windows XP instead of Linux on the OLPC. Uh… Hey, that’s so weird, dude!
*sigh*
Reasons mentioned:
Compatibility with Flash sites
Compatibility with other software
And speculations seem to imply that the move by Intel to sell the Classmate PC for a low price was one of the triggers. Why? Because consumers would buy that. And it seems like this shift to Windows XP would help …read more
