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From the News Desk
Friday, 16. May 2008
Windows Will Accompany Linux on OLPC Laptops
After a year long dispute, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child have reached an official agreement to produce versions of the foundation’s XO Laptop that run Windows XP. The parties expect to deliver a dual-boot XO system in August or September that will have both the traditional Linux-based Sugar operating system of the XO and a low-cost student version of Windows XP, according to Kyle Austin, an OLPC representative.
Microsoft said it plans to start trials of Windows on the low-cost laptop in key emerging markets as early as June.
Sugar was designed only to work with a free Linux operating system that engineers from Red Hat. Eventually, the goal will be to develop versions of the laptop to run both Linux and Windows, leaving the user to decide which operating system to run when the machine boots up, said OLPC foundation.
Windows will add a bit to the price of the machines, about USD 3, the licensing fee Microsoft charges to some developing nations under a program called Unlimited Potential. For those nations that want models that can run both Windows and Linux, the extra hardware required would add another USD 7 or so to the cost of the machines, said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC.
Microsoft and OLPC did not specify the price of the dual-boot system.
Microsoft said it plans to start trials of Windows on the low-cost laptop in key emerging markets as early as June.
Sugar was designed only to work with a free Linux operating system that engineers from Red Hat. Eventually, the goal will be to develop versions of the laptop to run both Linux and Windows, leaving the user to decide which operating system to run when the machine boots up, said OLPC foundation.
Windows will add a bit to the price of the machines, about USD 3, the licensing fee Microsoft charges to some developing nations under a program called Unlimited Potential. For those nations that want models that can run both Windows and Linux, the extra hardware required would add another USD 7 or so to the cost of the machines, said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC.
Microsoft and OLPC did not specify the price of the dual-boot system.
