[Charbax @ Mar 10th 2008 7:46PM]

If the OLPC can bring Microsoft to lower the cost of Windows XP to $3, slim it down so that it runs nicely on a $180 laptop that has 20 hours battery life, integrates WiFi Mesh features, integrates collaboration features easilly in all Windows XP apps, provides instant standby and resume, security such as respecting that certain apps can only be installed if they are cryptographically signed, that the laptop has to verify it's not stolen as soon as a connection to the Internet is established and brick itself if it detects that it is stolen. And perhaps even get Microsoft to open-source Windows XP at some point with the next couple of years. The I'd say OLPC has in terms of the revolution of laptop OS software done a "mission completed". Now just to get the rest of the Industry to accept that Moores law means laptops should cost half the price every 18 months and consume half the power every 18 months and not add bloatware to keep the same price and not care to improve power consumption of processors and screens. Fanless is the way to go, with Intel going fanless with the Atom Centrino, this is another "mission complete" for the OLPC project.