Comments on: XO Laptop Goes Windows

By: pikmin 3 bloodcry

pikmin 3 bloodcry — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:20:34 +0000

i don’t even have my own laptop!!!!X(
and u think a chunk-o metal is gan’na subtitute a stable govenment and food, supplies, HOUSE!!??!?
i think u people r stupid 4 dis&u should get out’ta utha countries bissines like barrock sead. yeas……so dis is 4 barcock-i tink u suck.

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2nd Generation OLPC Laptop has Dual Touchscreens « Alltogether — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:03:02 +0000

[...] Additionally, many will be interested to note that Windows XP will be available on the XO. [...]

By: manny

manny — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:58:52 +0000

i guess these kids can learn now what viruses, spyware, keyloggers, trojans, malware, registry errors, cracks and piracy are :)

By: Daniel Weinreb

Daniel Weinreb — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:34:55 +0000

Guillermo: I agree in principle, but before they can do that, they need a lot more support infrastructure than they have now. If they want to be a laptop company, they have to be a real business.

I think Ivan is right that it’s ok for Windows to work as long as Linux is also available. I sympathize with Walter’s point about the customer not always being right, but in my own career, trying to tell the customers that what they want is wrong, and they should just become enlightened and believe our dogma, has been a 100% unsuccessful way to make sales. And if you don’t make sales, everything else doesn’t matter; you just end up going home having done nothing.

By: Guillermo

Guillermo — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:13:56 +0000

I’m still waiting for these devices to be commercially available. OLPC would value, greatly, from increasing its user base, whether the XO is delivered with Windows or Linux (as long as it could be change of course). The laptop is very well built, and it would be unwise to expect children are going to build their own learning software, others could do it, but we need the laptops.