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Article: Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable Computing to Students Worldwide.
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- May 15, 2008
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Microsoft Windows now available on the XO laptop; trials to begin in key emerging markets as early as next month.
REDMOND, Wash., and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, Microsoft Corp. and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) announced an agreement that will make the Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC's low-cost XO laptops for the world's poorest children. Through this agreement, trials of the XO running Windows are planned to begin as soon as June in key emerging markets. Recognizing that the challenge of providing high-quality education for children in the developing world is too large to be solved by any single organization, ...