Today the government of Peru, Microsoft and the OLPC announced the first official pilot of XO laptops running Microsoft Windows. This was dual boot options for the foreseeable future. It also represents a
In November of 2005, Nicholas Negroponte and his OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen travelled to Tunisia for the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, where they were able to present a “working” US$100 laptop concept to Kofi Annan, UN secretary general. No longer did the machine rely on that…
Long before the XO Laptop sullied by infighting (and then redeemed by its dual the XO-2–over 25 years later, he’ll finally build the computer he’s always wanted. (And I want too.) The clip is long, but prescient and brilliant–you’ll feel smarter afterward. [TED via Mental Floss]