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Current Newswire: The Problem With The Linux Community Vim 101: A Beginner's Guide to Vim Open Source Science: A Revolution From Within openSUSE 11.2-- Incremental Updates, Plenty of Polish Microsoft, other rivals slam Google Chrome OS Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12 Editor's Note: Do It Yourself "Cloud" Google Chrome OS: First looks, first impressions Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.32 (Part 3) - Storage TV Mythos Renewed: MythTV 0.22 with Many Improvements Technical Specialist II – PC – LAN (AZ) Next Step Systems US-AZ-Scottsdale Post A Job | Post A Resume Report: OLPC May Eventually Switch from Linux to Windows XP Apr 23, 2008, 12 :45 UTC (22 Talkback[s]) (6025 reads) (Other stories by Eric Lai) "One day after the resignation of the One Laptop Per Child's president was publicly revealed, the educational project's founder and chairman says the group's XO laptop may evolve to use only Windows XP as the operating system, with open-source educational apps such as its home-built Sugar running on top. "OLPC's founder Nicholas Negroponte also told the Associated Press on Tuesday that an insistence upon using only free, open-source software had hampered the XO's usability and scared away potential adopters..." Complete Story Related Stories: This is The End My Friend: Negroponte Says XP on XO in 60 Days(Mar 13, 2008) Negroponte Seeks a Laptop CEO(Mar 06, 2008) A Child's Experience With the OLPC XO(Feb 15, 2008) Microsoft Upbeat about Windows on the OLPC's XO(Feb 08, 2008) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   How long will it take ...    Rainer Weikusat Apr 23, 2008, 13:02:40     Who's scared?    Stuart DeGraaf Apr 23, 2008, 13:04:09     then what?    Fred Williams Apr 23, 2008, 13:13:35     What ?    A Seda Apr 23, 2008, 13:30:58     Idiot.    zeke123 Apr 23, 2008, 13:31:29     But when Vista is all that is available?    Nomen Publicus Apr 23, 2008, 13:35:44     scare away the developers    Matthias Martin Apr 23, 2008, 13:42:47     Billy Gates,Inc    Neo Apr 23, 2008, 13:46:35     Disheartening if true    Michael Tiemann Apr 23, 2008, 14:09:44     He's going for the cover-up.    Brandioch Conner Apr 23, 2008, 14:41:47     OLPC, Windows, Scared? HA!    Lou Apr 23, 2008, 15:13:29     I read once...    Joe Almeida Apr 23, 2008, 15:18:36     Re: Billy Gates,Inc    Fred Williams Apr 23, 2008, 16:14:37     Re: I read once...    Rainer Weikusat Apr 23, 2008, 16:53:19     Wait a minute    Finalzone Apr 23, 2008, 17:15:26     Vaporware to kill OLPC    Rob Owens Apr 23, 2008, 17:29:38     Possibility?    DDahl Apr 23, 2008, 19:55:46     Could be biased    jhansonxi Apr 23, 2008, 20:38:41     Re: Possibility?    Jose_X Apr 23, 2008, 21:54:44     Negroponte's been bought, but...    YetAnotherBob Apr 24, 2008, 02:36:11     Disney.com    blackhole Apr 24, 2008, 07:24:40     killing OSS spirit from Childhood    Salahuddin Pasha (salahuddin66) May 17, 2008, 15:27:51     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!

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