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XO Laptops tie up with Microsoft to increase sale |
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Written by Team Josh
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
The One laptop Per Child project is trying hard to roll out the
momentum of its sale. To increase their base the project owners have
tied up with none other than Microsoft. This tie up will solve its
problems in spreading inexpensive laptops to schoolchildren.
 The One laptop Per Child project is trying hard to roll out the momentum of its sale. To increase their base the project owners have tied up with none other than Microsoft. This tie up will solve its problems in spreading inexpensive laptops to schoolchildren.
Microsoft and the laptop organisation announced Thursday that the non-profit’s green-and-white ‘XO’ computers can now run Windows in addition to their home-grown interface, which is built on the open Linux operating system.
Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the laptop project - which aims to produce $100 computers but now sells them at $188 - acknowledged that having Windows as an option could reassure education ministers who have hesitated to buy XOs with its new interface, called Sugar. Negroponte had hoped to sell several million laptops by now; instead he has gotten about 6,00,000 orders.
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