[Sugar-devel] Vision

[Tony Anderson]

My understanding is that Microsoft started a project at a school in Rwanda.
However, the implementing team later discarded the XOs, purchased 
conventional laptops
and used Windows in the school.

Note: (1) at the time Microsoft was walking away from XP and
           (2) Microsoft never offered to make Office available.

Tony

On 04/20/2016 12:48 PM, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:33:44PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
>> Interestingly OLPC also offer XO-4s today with either Fedora+Sugar,
>> or Android, or Windows XP.
> No, we only build them with Fedora + Sugar + Gnome.  Customer may load
> Android after delivery.  Windows XP is not on offer for XO-4.
>
>> I'm not sure how many Android units OLPC has shipped,
> None.
>
>> 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).  The
> XO-4 is certainly not capable, because it isn't an x86 processor.
>