$175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft's continued dominance

  2007-04-27 18:30:04
Yesterday Nicholas Negroponte, former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab now head of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, gave analysts and journalists an update on the OLPC project. Two big changes were announced - the $100 OLPC is now the $175 OLPC, and it will be able to run Windows.
[Like we didn't see this coming. Is there anything Microsoft can't do?, besides make a decent Operating System? - Scott] 
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