Linux Today: Linux News On Internet Time.
Search Linux Today
Linux News Sections: Blog - Developer - High Performance - Infrastructure - IT Management - Security - Storage -
Linux Today Navigation
LT Home
Preferences
Contribute
Link to Us
Search
Linux Jobs

Linux Today
Enterprise Linux Today
Apache Today
JustLinux.com
Linux Planet
PHPBuilder
All Linux Devices
Technology Jobs

JustTechJobs.com

LinuxToday Newsletters
Server Daily
IT Management Daily
Subscribe News
Subscribe PR
Subscribe Security

internet.com
Internet News
Small Business

Advertise
Newsletters
Tech Jobs
E-mail Offers

 






Current Newswire:

Tech Comics: "Groundhog Day"

Want a Job? Learn Linux

PC-BSD 9 review – to FreeBSD what Ubuntu is to Debian

Time to dispel open source myths, says Liam Maxwell

SECURITY: Nmap Inside and Out

Eight features Windows 8 'borrowed' from Linux

Malware devs embrace open-source

A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Raspberry Pi benchmarked against Beagleboard, low price is long term

20 popular Ubuntu Linux apps you may want to try



Applications Management Engineer Sr (NYC)
Next Step Systems
US-NY-New York

Justtechjobs.com Post A Job | Post A Resume
:vnunet: Microsoft Looking to Run Windows on OLPC
vnunet: Microsoft Looking to Run Windows on OLPC
Dec 5, 2006, 13 :45 UTC (20 Talkback[s]) (7509 reads)
(Other stories by Tom Sanders and Paul Briggs)

"Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook computers, OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at the NetEvents conference in Hong Kong on Saturday.

"'I have known [Microsoft chairman] Bill Gates his entire adult life. We talk, we meet one-on-one, we discuss this project,' said Negroponte, vnunet.com can reveal..."

Complete Story

Related Stories:
The New York Times: For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs Big Debate(Dec 01, 2006)
PakTribune: Pakistani Students Might Be Using $100 Laptop Next Year(Nov 30, 2006)
OSNews: The OLPC Sugar Inteface: Don't Do it(Nov 29, 2006)
AP/TBO: Brazil Schoolchildren To Get $100 Laptop PCs(Nov 27, 2006)


Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat  
  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Microsoft has become an increasingly pat ...   me too, meeeee tooooooo......   
John Helms
Dec 5, 2006, 15:08:26  
I thought Windose componets could not be ...   Hmmm....   
da
Dec 5, 2006, 15:14:59  
Actually, it has always been like th ...   Re: me too, meeeee tooooooo......   
wsd
Dec 5, 2006, 15:25:46  
Bill Gates..."If you are going to go hav ...   BG, OLPC and SD (on my!)   
AC
Dec 5, 2006, 15:36:36  
This is desperation on the part of Gates ...   Desperation   
Tim Patterson
Dec 5, 2006, 16:01:38  
140$ per unit + 400$ per licence... Ummm ...   Making numbers   
Shamar
Dec 5, 2006, 16:08:39  
meeee toooooI absolutly agrre with your ...   Re: me too, meeeee tooooooo......   
ikw
Dec 5, 2006, 16:15:48  
I just want to emphasize that "BG" is th ...   Re: BG, OLPC and SD (on my!)   
A Bulgarian
Dec 5, 2006, 16:36:48  
I sometimes wonder if a single original ...   Re: Re: me too, original idea   
jp
Dec 5, 2006, 16:42:14  
I have often wondered if Windows serv ...   Re: Desperation   
jp
Dec 5, 2006, 16:46:34  
This "story" would have made a nice intr ...   I Want the Story   
blackhole
Dec 5, 2006, 16:48:46  
I'm sorry, no disrespect intended.Ho ...   Re: BG, OLPC and SD (on my!)   
AC
Dec 5, 2006, 17:16:07  
Begs the question if such a move would m ...   Desperate despots   
Sid Boyce
Dec 5, 2006, 17:45:23  
AC asked it and I wondered it too. How ...   Unkind musings   
TM
Dec 5, 2006, 17:45:29  
I seem to remember some anti-virus write ...   Malware?   
DDahl
Dec 5, 2006, 21:25:52  
Actually, it has always been like t ...   Re: Re: me too, meeeee tooooooo......   
Don Brock
Dec 5, 2006, 21:59:44  
> I just want to emphasize that "BG" is ...   Re: Re: BG, OLPC and SD (on my!)   
Ken Jennings
Dec 6, 2006, 01:23:37  
I think the operative word here is ' ...   MS 'Looking' to run Windows on OLPC   
smallchange
Dec 6, 2006, 07:21:32  
> Actually, it has always been like that ...   Re: Re: me too, meeeee tooooooo......   
Rainer Weikusat
Dec 6, 2006, 12:52:15  
This is ridiculous.Whenever I am confron ...   Ridiculous   
steveoc
Dec 6, 2006, 14:09:05  
  Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page  



Enter your comments below:

* Your Name:

* Your Email Address:

* Subject:

CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address]

* Comments:

Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content.

Fields marked with * are required!

..............................




All times are recorded in UTC.
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Powered by Linux, Apache and PHP