Tag: XO-LAPTOP

Come June, computer makers are supposed to stop offering Windows XP on prebuilt systems. Microsoft will continue to support the operating system for a while, but the goal is to phase XP out and phase Vista in. But Microsoft has already extended XP's lifetime due to widespread concerns over Windows Vista. CNet has an interesting article suggesting that Microsoft could give Windows XP another ...

You know how yesterday we brought you news that Microsoft and OLPC were working on a way to dual boot Windows and Linux on the XO laptop? Yeah, despite the fact that the news came right from OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte, it was nothing but lies. Or perhaps an exaggeration. Or a misunderstanding. Anyway, it wasn't quite accurate, at least according to Microsoft. Microsoft has released a ...

We've known for a while that the OLPC's XO laptop would be capable of running Windows XP and not just the stock Fedora-based Sugar OS. But we'd kind of figured that once XO laptops running Windows became available you'd have to purchase a unit with one operating system or the other. Now we're hearing that OLPC is working with Microsoft to develop a dual-boot system. There's not a lot of ...

Pretty soon you'll be able to run Windows on pretty much any PC you buy, no matter how small. Thanks to Boot Camp and Parallels you can run Windows on a Mac. And thanks to an aggressive push by Microsoft, you can run Windows on Asus's low-cost laptop the Eee PC (while the first units are shipping with Linux, they include instructions for loading Windows XP and Asus plans to sell units with XP ...