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Apr 26 2007 12:00am EDT

OLPC Laptops Will Do Windows

Nicholas Negroponte gave analysts and journalists a deep update on One Laptop Per Child's $100 computers -- which actually costs $175. (Kinda like the penny arcade where the games are all 50 cents.) Significantly, Negroponte for the first time said his machines will run Windows in addition to Linux. Previously, the plan was to only run the free, open-source Linux, which could've become a problem for Microsoft.. □


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