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Microsoft Eyes Laptops for Poor Children
By: Reuters   |   May 06, 2007

If running the XO machines on Windows were to become an option, they would be equipped with Microsoft's Student Innovation Suite - a $3 suite that the software giant's founder, Bill Gates, unveiled last month in Beijing.

It includes a stripped-down version of Windows XP known as Windows XP Starter Edition, along with a word processor, e-mail program and spreadsheet as well as educational software.

Making the XO compatible with Windows requires development of about 10 software drivers for the laptop's hardware, Poole said.

Work on a possible Windows software suite for the XO cannot be completed until the One Laptop Per Child Foundation finalizes the hardware specifications of the model that will go into production in September, he said.

"They're still updating things and changing things," he said.

Once the product's specifications are finalized, Microsoft will seek to adapt its software to run on the system, then test it out to see how it performs on the machine.

It the machine isn't robust enough to run Windows, Microsoft won't go ahead and develop its software for the XO, Poole said.

"We have to look at the end experience. If the student is going to turn on the thing and love it, then that's really what we are focused on," he said.

The XO laptop is made with components from hardware makers including Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

Software maker Red Hat Inc helped develop the device. Quanta Computer Inc. will manufacture it.
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