How Microsoft forced open a new window of opportunity

Courtesy guardian.co.uk Technology  Sat, 05/17/2008 - 18:03

Much heat and little light were generated last week by the announcement, made jointly by Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, that Windows XP is to be made available on the project's 'XO' laptop, the little green machine aimed at the world's poorest children.

Next month, trials of Windows on the XO will begin in what Microsoft - in a telling phrase - describes as 'key emerging markets'.

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