Report: OLPC May Eventually Switch from Linux to Windows XP | Linux Today

Report: OLPC May Eventually Switch from Linux to Windows XP

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 23, 2008

“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…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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