Microsoft Corporation and the non-profit One Laptop Per Child project has announced an agreement that will put Windows XP on the OLPC XO laptop—albeit with a higher price tag attached. OLPC XO’s will still be available with the organization’s Linux-based operating system and education-centric Sugar interface, but versions will also be available with XP, which should make the notebooks easier to sell to governments and educational programs who want to be sure students are acquiring marketable skills. The companies also plan to work together on a version of the XO notebook that can boot into either XP or Sugar, and the OLPC foundation says it plans to work with third parties to port the Sugar interface to Windows.
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OLPC Security Chief Resigns
The OLPC project’s director of security architecture Ivan Krstić has resigned from the non-profit organization, characterizing OLPC’s recent restructuring as “drastic” and a radical shift from the organization’s original goals. Krstić revealed on a Web site entry he resigned the post three weeks ago.
“Not long ago, OLPC undertook a drastic internal restructuring coupled with what, despite official claims to the contrary, is a radical change in its goals and vision from those that were shared with me when I was invited to join the project,” Krstić wrote. “I cannot subscribe to the organization’s new aims or structure in good faith, nor can I reconcile them with my personal ethic.”

