<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><B>One less worry for the underprivileged children of the world: </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Remember all that buzz last week about how the </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.laptop.org/index.shtml"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C4C8B">One Laptop Per Child</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> 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 "</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/2007/04/ok_thats_175_for_the_laptop_3_for_windows_and_500_for_the_remote_tech_support.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C4C8B">OK, that's $176 for the laptop, $3 for Windows and $500 for the remote tech support</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">")? Well, forget it. Apparently the major wire services and other news outlets latched on to a random info-nugget and </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_5757863"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C4C8B">extrapolated to the extreme</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">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. </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070502-olpc-project-clarifies-no-plans-for-windows-support.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C4C8B">Bender told the folks at Ars Technica</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> that his group has made no agreement with Microsoft, held no talks regarding the use of Microsoft's $3 </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/apr07/04-19UnlimitedPotential.mspx"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C4C8B">Student Innovation Suite</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">, and received no requests from governments for a Windows version of the XO.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">"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. </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/2007/05/one_less_worry_for_the_underprivileged_children_of_the_world.html#respond"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#2C4C8B"><I>Comment on this post</I></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px">From Good Morning Silicon Valley</P></BODY></HTML>