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Poor Microsoft

Posted Apr 1, 2007 7:59 UTC (Sun) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)
In reply to: What's Intel's purpose here? by BrucePerens
Parent article: Mandriva participates in Intel's Classmate PC project

So, Intel has positioned itself against the OLPC project for some time, with a number of public statements. I thought it might be something they were doing for Microsoft, but then they come out with a competing model that has Mandriva in it rather than Windows.

Yes, interesting, isn't it? Yet another blow for Microsoft. Maybe time for them to do their own platform-for-schools project...

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Poor Microsoft

Posted Apr 1, 2007 13:26 UTC (Sun) by bluegecko (guest, #42312) [Link]

Not quite... Intel's blurb states that the Classmate will run either Windows or Linux

Poor Microsoft

Posted Apr 2, 2007 2:09 UTC (Mon) by ldo (subscriber, #40946) [Link]

Thanks for that link.

Hmmm ... it mentions something called "Win XPE". Wonder what that is? Sounds like it's XP-based, rather than Vista-based.

Also no mention of what the difference in price might between the Dimdows version and the Linux version.

Poor Microsoft

Posted Apr 5, 2007 17:40 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]

Windows XP Embedded -- presumably they haven't had time to strip out the inessential components from Vista, and besides, if even corporate users with in-house IT staff shy away from new OS releases for at least a few months, it makes even more sense to be cautious for this sort of mass deployments.