Here's one for the "I'll be..." files...

[mjc]

"We're spending a nontrivial amount of money on it," Microsoft Corporate Vice President Will Poole said in an interview on Thursday.

A Microsoft VP talking about spending money to get XP running on a dirt cheap, Linux powered laptop? Who would have thought...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071026/tc_nm/microsoft_laptops_dc_3

[mr soft]

They obviously weren’t interested at first, but then the mention of "poor children" and "nonprofit" were mentioned. This from a company who just posted a quarterly of 4.29 billion. They almost spin it like, oh we’ll have to dumb our OS down a bit.

[classicsoftware]

They obviously weren’t interested at first, but then the mention of "poor children" and "nonprofit" were mentioned. This from a company who just posted a quarterly of 4.29 billion. They almost spin it like, oh we’ll have to dumb our OS down a bit.

You can say a great deal about M$. They have done many things I disagree with. But to imply M$ is bad just because they are big is, with all respect, stupid.

Name any other person who is giving most of their money away the way Gates is. They do enough wrong to write about, don't make stuff up....

[mjc]

Well, if it weren't for the fact that all MS versions tend to be resource hogs, this wouldn't be too much of a problem. In fact the specs for the XO, other than no hard drive fall within the minimums for XP. Part of the problem is the default way XP handles the USB bus when booting...it resets the bus, completely, so...

[pentachris]

Irony: Nigeria, land of the spam scams, orders the first 1,000,000. (http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2161048/nigeria-orders-olpc-laptops)

Obvious: When the Nigerian schoolchildren get them, they use them to surf for porn. (http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1966647020070720)

[Ajmukon]

Intel chairman Craig Barrett dismissed the project as a "$100 gadget ", and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates criticised the small screen and hand crank.
ha ha... :D