Low-cost laptop program sees a key leadership defection
April 22, 2008 By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer
In this Dec. 12, 2007 file photo, Exadith Solis, 8, looks up while using her "XO" laptop in Arahuay, an Andean hilltop village in Peru. Walter Bender, a key person behind the "$100 laptop" for schoolchildren has left the project as the organization overhauls its operations and prepares to tweak its open-source approach by welcoming Microsoft Corp.'s Windows. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
(AP) -- A key person behind the "$100 laptop" for schoolchildren has left the project as the organization overhauls its operations and prepares to tweak its open-source approach by welcoming Microsoft Corp.'s Windows.
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