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Microsoft Denies Dual-Boot Linux/Windows XO Laptops Are On Its Agenda

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Mary Jo Foley
Jan 10, 2008

“It looks like the head of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Chief
Nicholas Negroponte is not only alienating Intel, but Microsoft,
too.

“A day after published reports quoting Negroponte as saying OLPC
XO laptops would dual boot Linux and Windows, Microsoft is denying
that the company is pursuing such a plan…”

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MJF

Mary Jo Foley

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