Coming soon: Windows on XO laptops
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| The laptops were designed specifically to run Linux programs. If the machines
| run only Linux, Microsoft will lose an opportunity to expose tens of millions
| of children worldwide to its Windows system.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUKN2514082920071025
Watch the references below and you'll be furious. They want to pull money from
a project that they viciously destroyed and get children 'addicted' to Windows
(Gates' own words). Evil knows no boundaries. Same with Intel, which now wants
to chip to replace AMD on these laptops... in both cases (Windows and Intel),
it's not final.
This comes just after renewed hope for XO (Linux) in India (next post).
Related:
Poor Kids' Laptop Cranks Up
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| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates earlier this year told the Microsoft
| Government Leaders Forum, "Geez, get a decent computer where you can
| actually read the text and you?re not sitting there cranking the thing
| while you're trying to type" (see Bill Gates Mocks $100 Laptop).
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http://www.redherring.com/article.aspx?a=17302
One Laptop Per Child - Production Delays Caused By Microsoft, Intel?
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| I sincerely hope that no matter what the people who are running the
| OLPC project decide, that their project will continue and not get
| bogged down in a play of corporate greed and ambitions.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2007/04/28/one-laptop-per-child-production-delays-caused-by-microsoft-intel/
Negroponte says Intel should be "ashamed of itself"
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| He is furious that Intel's CEO Craig Barrett called the One Laptop a
| gadget. The Negroponte initiative is caught in the middle of a vicious
| fight between AMD and Intel, he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39733
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| That software effort does not have the support of Mr. Otellini, who
| is concerned about incurring Microsoft's wrath, the executive said.
| The two companies have a long history of tension over who controls
| the hardware and software direction of the "Wintel standard." Intel
| has said it is supporting both operating systems.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/technology/16chip.html?ex=1177560000&en=2ef52cee6b1fb0e3&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS
Intel Inside the Third World
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| Negroponte has repeatedly criticized Intel for what he considers its
| hardball tactics. And yet the rivals may be ready to bury the hatchet:
| BusinessWeek has learned that Intel and OLPC executives are in talks
| regarding how they can work together.
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http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2007/gb20070628_140912.htm?campaign_id=yhoo
Q&A: Intel's Maloney discusses digital divide
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| The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project also hopes its low-cost XO laptop
| can close the "digital divide" that exists between the developed world
| and emerging markets.
|
| Much has been made of these two efforts, which are often painted as
| rivals by the media and observers.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070611/tc_infoworld/89252
Which laptop per child?
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| The chipmaking giant Intel is accused of damaging the non-profit scheme to
| provide cheap laptops for the developing world. It says it's helping.
|
| [...]
|
| It is not the first time that Intel has been accused of using its
| near monopoly to overpower rivals - for example, it is being
| investigated by the European Commission over allegations of
| anti-competitive behaviour. AMD, Intel's only major rival and
| the company which supplies the chips inside the XO-1, did not
| waste an opportunity to go on the offensive.
|
| "What we have here is an infinitely powerful monopoly
| metaphorically threatening to break the kneecaps of a non-profit
| if it doesn't 'get in line'," wrote AMD spokesman Michael
| Silverman in a letter published on the Barron's website.
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http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2091248,00.html
Merrill: Intel's More Interested In Crushing AMD Than Improving Margins
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| They think that Intel is a lot more interested in reducing AMD to
| its former status than in showing much gross margin improvementt
| his year.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070309/29149_id.html?.v=1
Negreponte says Intel spurned cheap laptop
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| Nicholas Negreponte at MIT said that Intel's Craig Barrett and
| Microsoft's Bill Gate had admitted remarks they'd made about the one
| notebook per child initiative were unfortunate.
|
| Speaking to CNBC Europe, Negreponte said that from his point of view
| it was unfortunate too, because when he and his team talked to
| leaders of small countries the remarks were thrown back in their
| face.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34924
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| Though Pentium 4s can sell for up to $637, Intel's average
| cost for making a chip comes to $40, according to a report
| from analysts In-Stat.
|
| The report doesn't consider expenses related to design
| or marketing...
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http://news.com.com/Intels+manufacturing+cost+40+per+chip/2100-1006_3-5862922.html
Intel: Only "Open" for Business
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| These vendors often want a quiet private discussion,
| because in a quiet private discussion they can continue to
| dismiss the requests and in the end do absolutely nothing.
| They do not want a noisy public discussion, because then
| they look bad. But they DESERVE TO LOOK BAD, because they
| are being bad to those who bought their hardware!
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http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060930232710&mode=expanded
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