Correction: One less worry for the underprivileged children of the world

[Roy Pea]

One less worry for the underprivileged children of the world:  
Remember all that buzz last week about how the One Laptop Per Child  
program's XO computer might end up able to run a version of Windows  
as an alternative to the open-source OS designed for it (see "OK,  
that's $176 for the laptop, $3 for Windows and $500 for the remote  
tech support")? Well, forget it. Apparently the major wire services  
and other news outlets latched on to a random info-nugget and  
extrapolated to the extreme.

Microsoft is indeed one of more than 1,500 companies accepted to  
OLPC's developer program, does have access to XO prototypes and has  
made vague noises about developing for the machine, but that's the  
extent of it, according to Walter Bender, president of software and  
content at OLPC. Bender told the folks at Ars Technica that his group  
has made no agreement with Microsoft, held no talks regarding the use  
of Microsoft's $3 Student Innovation Suite, and received no requests  
from governments for a Windows version of the XO.

"We are a free and open-source shop. We have no one from OLPC working  
with Microsoft on developing a Windows platform for the XO. MS  
doesn't get any special treatment from OLPC," Bender told Ars.
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