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Microsoft, OLPC officially team up

news.com — So, I guess this makes it Two Operating Systems Per Child.

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  • CryRightardCry, on 05/16/2008, -3/+2Who cares, UNLESS:
    1. There is the classic "Microsoft tax" on the laptops now, raising the costs across the board to pay for Windows.
    2. Microsoft gets a say in future developement of the platform, which means they will do EVERYTHING they can to cut linux out in all those classy little ways MS screws competitors.

    This is just a bad idea. Companies that get in bed with MS get up and find they got screwed.
    ""When I talk to people and tell them we can run Windows, they are very impressed," he said. "You pass a sort of virility test."
    ***** you, Negroponte, for buying into Microsoft's *****. How many times does a company have to show unethical behavior before you figure it out?
    This will harm OLPC more than it helps.
    Ah, and OF COURSE Windows REPLACES linux on the laptops, it's not dual boot giving users and option of not being controlled by MS.
    Oh gee, they are doing because some countries REQUIRE windows. Golly, I wonder if MS lobbied those governments and BOUGHT that requirement.
    You KNOW they did, that's SOP.
    • DarkShroud, on 05/16/2008, -1/+2MS is charging $3 per laptop for their OS.

      Now onto the rest of your BS. The laptops weren't selling. Just because you hate windows doesn't mean everyone else does. People wanted Windows on these.
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