Peru and Microsoft announcement

[Ed McNierney]

Folks -

There have been a number of questions about press coverage late last week
from Peru concerning the introduction of XO laptops running XP and Office.
Microsoft has previously ordered a number of XO laptops for XP testing and
pilot deployment.  The usage and distribution of these machines for that
effort is up to Microsoft, and that¹s what they¹re doing in Peru.  This
activity is not news, but is just a stage in Microsoft's plans as they were
announced back in May:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-15MSOLPCPR.mspx

There are a number of milestones yet to be achieved before XP can be made
widely available on XO machines in any form, from any source.   The work
involved will require at least more several months to complete.  Microsoft
and OLPC announced in May that we'd work to make XP available in a future XO
dual-boot configuration, and nothing has changed about that situation.

     - Ed

Ed McNierney
Vice President of Software Development
One Laptop Per Child
ed at laptop.org
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