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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 that’s what they’re doing in Peru. This activity is not news, but is just a stage in Microsoft's plans as they were announced back in May:<BR>
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<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-15MSOLPCPR.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-15MSOLPCPR.mspx</a><BR>
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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.<BR>
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- Ed<BR>
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Ed McNierney<BR>
Vice President of Software Development<BR>
One Laptop Per Child<BR>
<a href="ed@laptop.org">ed@laptop.org</a></SPAN></FONT>
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