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Foot in the Door
Personally, I think Microsoft is getting (or trying to get) a foot in the door of developing nations. Think back when you were in school, when Apple donated so many computers to schools and you may well have used one. When you graduated the first computer you probably thought about buying was an Apple. Because you were already familiar with it. You knew how to use it and what all it could do.

Now look at the hundreds of millions of people that could be swayed to Windows just because of a Windows OLPC. The Windows sales alone could be staggering not to mention the sales of other MS software applications. It's an investment in the future by Microsoft. Whether or not it pays off only time will tell, but if I were running Microsoft, I would go this route.

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Negropronte is right, we can not call it open and then not alow a specific  DonnieBoy | 10/29/07
He is totally off-base  comp_indiana | 10/31/07
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RE: Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy  Loverock Davidson | 10/29/07
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You really have no real understanding of computer science do you?  pcguy777 | 10/31/07
What he's trying to say...  byte_size | 11/06/07
FUD  bubba555 | 10/30/07
ten fold?  catseverywhere@... | 10/30/07
thats it. its official. many linux worshipers are nuts.  pcguy777 | 10/31/07
Oh, he was serious.I thought ...  el1jones | 10/30/07
Lovey is serious...  JCitizen | 10/30/07
Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy  shadow431986@... | 10/29/07
Wrong Negroponte  say_what | 10/29/07
You have the wrong Negroponte  GuidingLight | 10/29/07
birds of a feather  catseverywhere@... | 10/30/07
RE: Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy  braintrust | 10/29/07
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Better yet  Larry the Security Guy | 10/31/07
open medicine  byte_size | 11/06/07
His definition of "open"...  four-eyes_z | 10/29/07
His job is to get laptops to the kids, not "pissing" corporations  georgeou | 10/29/07
Whatever  ecbpro | 10/30/07
"I Just wonder, why is MS jumping on it now?"  bka1959 | 10/30/07
MinWin, I should have known...  JCitizen | 10/30/07
It's amazing how blind people can twist words  mdsmedia | 10/30/07
bad move  Linux Geek | 10/30/07
agreed  A.Lizard | 10/30/07
Let's face facts........  nwoodson@... | 10/30/07
Bad move? Perhaps, but  mustangj36@... | 10/30/07
Foot in the Door  George49 | 10/30/07
Let's not lose sight of the goal..  JCitizen | 10/30/07
Self appointed Messiah is a Backstabber  MailMan1958 | 10/30/07
Confusion  Altotus | 10/31/07
Correct me if I'm wrong...  JCitizen | 10/31/07
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