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

[Jim Gettys <jg laptop org>]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 22:21 -0400, Tim Flavin wrote:

> 
> 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.

Yes, there are existing Geode boards made by AMD and other vendors that
Microsoft can work on today.

If and when Microsoft ask us for development boards, and we have them to
distribute (power on is a couple weeks out for the first board), we'll
send them some of our boards.  It is entirely possible Microsoft have
already asked Nicholas for our boards; I don't know off hand if this has
occurred or not.
                             Regards,
                                - Jim

-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child