'$100 laptop' nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft

May 16th, 2008 By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer '$100 laptop' nonprofit now teamed with Microsoft (AP)

In this Dec. 12, 2007 file photo, Renzo, 8, reads on his "XO" laptop in Arahuay, an Andean hilltop village in Peru. Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child project on Thursday, May 15, 2008 announced that the nonprofit's green-and-white "XO" computers now can run Windows in addition to their homegrown interface, which is built on the open Linux operating system. That had been anticipated for months, but it amounts to a major shift. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

(AP) -- The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren.



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    Hmm, they just got rid of the only reason anybody cared about the project. Now they are simply an ultra-cheap Windows laptop manufacturer.

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