Vista vs XP [LWN.net]

Vista vs XP

Posted Jan 11, 2008 9:54 UTC (Fri) by ayeomans (subscriber, #1848)
Parent article: Why Microsoft Must Control One Laptop Per Child (Technocrat.net)

I'm wondering how Microsoft plan to handle the marketing of only using XP on such devices.
Mainstream support ends in 2009. And not having a working version of Vista on them can't help
them promote the use of Vista elsewhere. Which could harm their actual main marketplace for
home and corporate PCs, and also give the impression to anyone buying a Windows XP OLPC that
they were being fobbed off with an out-of-date non-upgradeable version.

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Vista vs XP

Posted Jan 11, 2008 11:33 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Whatever OS Microsoft gets running on the XO will not be Vista nor XP. The requirements for
those are too high, the systems too complex to tweak for a machine so unique. 
No, it would be something more like CE, maybe brand new.