Now Microsoft join the OLPC project
Written by IT News on 7:05 AM
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an education charity program, Microsoft now agree to join this program. This is has been dispute for a year.
Microsoft has dispute for too long in the ambitious project, because the laptop uses the Linux operating system, freely distributed as an alternative to Windows operating system. Microsoft its look like that now agree to join this project.
The group’s small, sturdy laptops, designed for use by children in developing nations, have been hailed for their innovative design. But they are sold mainly to governments and education ministries, and initial sales were slow, partly because countries were reluctant to buy machines that did not run Windows, the dominant operating system.
The OLPC initiative was a battlefield of politics, with some donors Linux advocates that the group should require that Linux could be the only operating system on the machines, to inform them an advantage over Windows in the world.
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