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One Laptop Per Child Embraces Windows XP

Move gives new life to seemingly immortal operating system

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted May 17, 2008 11:15 AM CDT

(Newser) – Now that Microsoft has signed on to the One Laptop Per Child initiative—aimed at getting low-cost PCs to kids in poor countries—its Windows XP operating system is again getting a new jolt of life, reports InternetNews.com. The project originally used only free,... Read full story »

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