Re: [olpc-software] $100 laptop and Microsoft Windows CE operating system

["Tim Flavin" <tim flavin gmail com>]

    Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has criticized the computers'
design, including its lack of a hard disk drive — though many people
in the tech world believed he was more irked by the laptops' use of
Linux, the free, open-source system that competes with Gates'
proprietary Windows systems.

[...]


  >>   Negroponte expressed frustration with Gates in particular,
saying that the $100 laptop >> designers are still working with
Microsoft to develop a version of the Windows CE >> >> >> operating
system that could run the machines.

>> "Geez, so why criticize me in public?" Negroponte said.

> Microsoft did not immediately return calls for comment.

> A second OS for the $100 laptop? WTF?

If being in the third row is being close to Negroponte, I can respond :-).

He did say it.  He also said that they will/did Geode prototype boards
so that they could bring up Win CE.  My guess is this is part of the
"let the customer decide what software to ship" idea.  I didn't get
the impression that significant numbers of $100 laptops would ship
with Win CE.

He also used 500 Mhz number.  That's AMD marketing talk. Except for
jg's writeup, I think most of the  laptop.org uses 500 Mhz.

He said that the talk was being taped.  If someone finds a link, could
they post it?