The XO Laptop (or the OLPC, whatever you want to call it) will now run Windows, giving children around the world the opportunity to dislike Microsoft as much as we do. I think we alluded to the sort of problems they’ll have in last week’s Sweater Friends. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte said the use of Windows “enhances [its] ability” to “transform education,” one BSOD at a time.
I don’t know, as a tech guy I’m supposed to applaud the program—hooray, computers in the third world—but I’m also supposed to hate M$. I really am torn.
Nuture? Ummm, spell check…..
Nice work OLPC – give children in the third world a computer with an outdated OS that they will not be able to afford to upgrade!
This project sounded good in the beginning, but they’ve definitely lost it now…
… and the first words in English they will learn will be the “blue screen of death”.
Ampers.