Comments on: Intel and OLPC kiss and make up

Intel and the One Laptop Per Child Program have ironed out their differences and agreed to collaborate on future projects.

[Penguinisto]

...and Microsoft?

...what happens to them now?

The Intel project was originally a collaboration between MSFT and Intel to provide an alternative to OLPC. Now that Intel is a part of OLPC, that leaves Microsoft out in the cold, since the default OLPC OS is based in Linux.

This may be a sign of deeper things than one may see on the surface.

/P

[FuturDreamz]

So?

We don't want the African countries to attempt to declare war
against the US because of the crappy SW on the ChessMate.

[pugster]

Olpc and Microsoft won't work.

Remember when Intel and Microsoft want to work together on the UMPC? Vista's hardware requirements is just too much on a UMPC. Intel got fed up and made an UMPC and worked with asus on the $199 EEE 701, which is based on linux.

Unless Microsoft will make a slimmed down and low cost version of the windows OS for the UMPC, they have no chance.