[Sugar-devel] Vision

[Sean DALY]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:48 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> > but I can not find any evidence that XP was - [...] - ever shipped
> > by OLPC, [...]
>
> None.  Windows XP required a PC architecture, which the early models
> were capable of, and the systems were engineered, but there were no
> customer orders, so we never shipped it.  (My guess is that people
> said they wanted it, but when it came to the crunch they didn't).
>


My understanding is that performance was awful with the baseline hardware
RAM, and the Windows license added $3 or so per unit, so naturally
customers disdained the offer. There was loads of negative chatter on the
Web at the time, silly memes that MS had somehow "taken over" OLPC were
constantly repeated. OLPC made no effort to combat that perception,
reasoning that what developers said on Slashdot was irrelevant and all that
mattered was the competition for customer contracts, at the time Classmate
PCs running Windows XP, sometimes with a proprietary kid-friendly
interface. The world has changed since.

Sean
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