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re: As expected, OLPC embraces Windows

peterkirn — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:51:04 GMT

I think commenters are missing the point. I agree with Paul that the software result was problematic. But the whole idea of the XO laptop was *supposed* to be using it as a learning tool.

There's an excellent criticism here:

radian.org/.../sic-transit-gloria-laptopi

Saying this is Linux vs. Windows is a massive oversimplification. I think the question is, what would a mass implementation of a laptop *for learning* need in the way of software? Which OS you use is only a small component of that question. And as Ivan observes, even the question of free software may be a secondary element.

But saying this is a blow for mainstream Linux adoption is just ridiculous ... it assumes that the OLPC has any kind of mass appeal to begin with, and with the project unraveling, I think that's an open question.

Lifetime skills in XP? You have to be joking.

Education, and even computer education, is about more than any OS -- Windows included.

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Turbulence — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:28:26 GMT

The OLPC doesn't even "seem" capable of running Windows.

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subzerohitman721 — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:58:49 GMT

I tend to view this as a positive, since OLPC tried to go the Linux route. Just like the other attempts to go mass market with Linux, it has failed yet again to gain any true traction. Counting the two Wal-Mart attempts, is this not 0 for 3 for Linux variants attempting to mass market?

Like the blog states, "Negroponte says when he made the rounds in Egypt trying to interest the government in buying XOs, four ministers he met all asked "by the second sentence" whether they ran Windows."

Just like in the United States, the rest of the real world uses Windows. This could have been a place where Steve Jobs could have stepped up and offered OS-X. This could have been very positve press and a chance to prove that Jobs is all about the consumer. Even the smallest of consumers are in his view. It would have been a smash opportunity to get the world's youth started as Apple customers on the OS side. But he passed on this opportunity and this will simply enlarge the Windows community.

Spin it like you can, the truth is that 15 years after Windows 3.0, its still a Windows World.

I do hope that Microsoft will offer in the near future, a special support for OLPC running XP. Perhaps a future version will support Vista, but in the long run this is a win-win for Windows and Microsoft. We get a world wide audience of children who will embrace XP and gain valuable lifetime skills. Those who are truely gifted will do remarkable things.

re: As expected, OLPC embraces Windows

beaker — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:38:43 GMT

I thought Vista was the future? Shouldn't that be the goal?

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Waethorn — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:00:55 GMT

Sorry, but if it can't run Windows Vista Starter, it's just not a good deal.

I don't see how a 3rd-world country that's starting out with computer systems can feel good about purchasing something, knowing that free vendor support will expire in less than a year, and they'd never be able to afford an extended support contract.

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re: As expected, OLPC embraces Windows

dstrack — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:59:33 GMT

I bought the XO as the buy one give one program... I think its a neat little machine. Sugar is a very strange UI. I like the whole "mesh" idea but the UI is not user friendly at all. Windows would be much better... are we going to be able to run Windows on our XO if we already bought one? Seems like there's going to be slight hardware upgrades/changes...

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