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Current Newswire: Perl far from dead, more popular than you think Microsoft Exchange alternatives Kubuntu 9.10: A Mixed Bag Could Microsoft switch to Linux? Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only? Creating Ebooks with Sigil Editor's Note: Making Multi-Channel Firewire Music With Linux Amaya: A Simple, Yet Useful Alternative to Dreamweaver Windows 7 Sales Up, But is it Really a Hit? Over clocking intel i7 on a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme Sr Systems Engineer - Solaris - AIX (TX) Next Step Systems US-TX-Houston Post A Job | Post A Resume Why is Microsoft Underpowering One Laptop Per Child? May 14, 2008, 22 :30 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (5227 reads) (Other stories by Matt Asay) [ Thanks to Matt Asay for this link. ] "Boingboing is reporting that Microsoft is forcing OEMs into using artificially low hardware specifications. Even if you erroneously believe that OLPC is simply a matter of price tag, Microsoft's actions are puzzling, to say the least. Well, as long as you imagine that Microsoft is in it for the kids. "As Cory Doctorow notes: "Microsoft is trying to distort the market for cheap, tiny laptops by setting up artificial incentives to manufacturers to limit the power and capability of their lowest-cost units..." Complete Story Related Stories: OpenOffice.org Obeys Moore's Law?(May 14, 2008) Negroponte vs. the Open-Source Fundamentalists(Apr 29, 2008) Report: OLPC May Eventually Switch from Linux to Windows XP(Apr 23, 2008) Intel MID Shuns Microsoft, Taps Linux(Apr 04, 2008) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Well, you didn't expect this?    philc May 15, 2008, 02:03:24     Confusion    Onan the Barbarian May 15, 2008, 07:28:22     Re: Confusion    blackhole May 16, 2008, 04:52:13     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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