-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Valsa Williams wrote:
| *Talk about strange bedfellows, but it would be a PR win for MSFT. | However -- how could they run Windows on an XO without a full BIOS? | Mr. Negroponte would have to back off from having a fully open source | BIOS to make this happen, I'm guessing, not to mention backing off | from the open source OS and apps.... http://radian.org/notebook/paradox-of-choice (off http://planet.laptop.org/) Yes, we’ve been meeting with Microsoft about their XP port. OLPC has not dedicated resources to this work. We are not contributing engineering time to it, considering it as part of our strategy, or getting ready to replace Sugar. The extent of our involvement is having several meetings with the Microsoft staff and allowing a Microsoft-paid technical writer to work from our offices in order to produce specifications that will aid the port — on the condition that the specifications are also released publicly (they’re being posted to our wiki.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHhvX4XQZpNTcrCzMRAvykAJ42e3fUR5ippvTgq4toQhjNsmSV3QCfUwUI Eu8xNnDkG8JmzkKEI1wps3g= =Y/wQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
