http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft sez no OLPC dual-boot, still committed to XP on XO http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/
I use it a lot, and I find it works perfectly fine. No problems seeing sites on it. I think IE6 is far to unsafe though, and if you can't upgrade to IE7, go for Opera. It's super fast. But it's sometimes hard to find the most simplest buttons.

So yeah, go for IE7 or Opera. I've used both and they're great. IE6 has far too many issues with things.]]>Jan 11th 2008 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/
'Hi, I'm a Mac.'
'And I'm a Dell.'
'What?'
'I'm a Dell.'
'What's the difference between a Dell and just another PC?'
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/19/38924.aspx
'Oh.']]>Jan 11th 2008 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/
GRR.. if this posts twice, blame these freakin' servers.]]>Jan 11th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/
"Oh shit the SD card fell out"

Nigerian kid: "waah my computer broke my screen went blue and I can't look at pr0n mommy please fix it!!!!"]]>Jan 11th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/
This also means that despite what Microsoft loads onto XP XOs, it'll be possible for the end user to dual boot Windows and Linux on it.]]>Jan 11th 2008 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/
But if people want either it is good to have the option.

Unless forcing people to use Linux is the in thing now.]]>Jan 11th 2008 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/]]>Jan 11th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/
Am I cool yet?]]>Jan 11th 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/if there's no windows, then no linux, and ol steve offered his mac os for free, and negroponte declined.

what's it gonna run then?

i have one of these, the sugar os is ok, i just wish windows wouldn't keep meddling around with it, it already runs slow, just imagine windoze trying to churn in that thing]]>Jan 11th 2008 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/
Another great oxymoron, from the people who brought you "Microsoft Works". :)]]>Jan 11th 2008 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/
Now, I imagine that getting Windows to play well in an environment not explicitly designed for it might well be a nontrivial challenge(and not something Microsoft is used to); but the XO architecture is friendly enough.]]>Jan 11th 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/Jan 11th 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/So the operating system they have is absolutely fine. MS trying to bully it's way into another market is complete and utter non-sense, but I guess the people at OLPC can't see that their laptop does the trick and works fine. Saying to a child in Nigeria, "do you want Windows or Linux?" - give me a break - give them something that works right now - the OLPC.]]>Jan 11th 2008 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/microsoft-sez-no-olpc-dual-boot-still-committed-to-xp-on-xo/
Linux can run on more stuffs than Microsoft because it's more robust and scalable. Why you think they chose Linux? Here's a hint to retards that don't know jack: It's cheaper to run it.

The kernel can be modify etc.. what can you do with xp? Blue screen of death? LOL. Can you change the scheduler? Or is there any protection like root? What about NTFS versus ext2,ext3, and ext4? Linux doesn't need to defrag.

It's just bunch of retards bitch about stuff they don't know.

Learning linux can get you jobs like sys admins, network admins, os, embedded system, security, etc.. what can you do with xp? Photoshop? Geek Squad? Oh wait with xp they can be idiots that talk stuff about they don't know. LOL.
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