Windows XP being ported to XO Laptop
- December 6th, 2007
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Microsoft is hard at work porting Windows XP for the XO Laptop. That’s good news for any number of reasons, not least of which because it gives an air of legitimacy to the laptop. (Reports have suggested that some governments are weary of the XO because it runs Linux. For better or worse, the perception is that you need to run Windows.) It’s not easy porting over XP, though: Microsoft says it’s difficult to fit its OS on the XO’s tiny flash drive, so much so that Microsoft wants the One Laptop people to add a standard SD Card slot to it. All told, some 40 engineers, both in-house and otherwise, are working on the project.
Now cue the XO hating.
Microsoft trials XP on XO laptop [BBC News]
Aaron (Who am I?)
7 months ago
After playing with one myself and knowing how it’s going to be used, running Windows on these things is a complete waste of energy and time. It’s completely pointless to put Windows on them. It’s like trying to put Vista on an iPhone. WHY??
Jarett (Who am I?)
7 months ago
Yeah, that sounds like a typical Microsoft move. Their software is too large to run on a pared-down, child-aimed laptop, so instead of taking out a few unneeded bits (and there are many), they demand the makers give them more storage space.
Emmanuel (Who am I?)
7 months ago
I’m glad that windows XP is getting the slim down treatment. It’ll be a great OS for running in virtualization (Parallels, VMWare Fusion and Xen when they get around to making a Mac OS X port) on my Mac, Linux, etc box. Cause while I never want to run WinXP ever again, there are times you just can’t avoid it and this work should make it smaller and run faster under less memory.