After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Sugar Wins! Nobody Buying Windows XO Laptops
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>| It was almost exactly one year ago that Nicholas Negroponte announced an
>| agreement between OLPC and Microsoft to bring Windows XP to the XO-1 to great
>| turmoil. I vividly remember the late-night flood of e-mails and IRC chats
>| where everyone was trying to figure out just what that announcement really
>| meant.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| I've been wondering about what ever happened to these Windows XP-based OLPC
>| trials. I haven't really heard anything about them in quite some time. Now
>| more recently I've asked around and found there is a good reason why I
>| haven't seen anything: countries are choosing Sugar over Windows XP for their
>| XO deployments.
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> http://www.olpcnews.com/software/windows/nobody_buying_windows_xo_laptops.html
"Which extra XP cost and hassle do you think kills the Windows XO idea?"
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