The One Laptop Per Child has finally sent out an official communication on its agreement with Microsoft, which involves the creation of a dual-boot version of the XO laptop.
"OLPC is substantially increasing its engineering resources and all software development continues entirely on GNU/Linux.
We will continue to work to make Sugar on Linux the best possible platform for education and to invest in our expanding Linux deployments in Peru, Uruguay, Mexico and elsewhere.
No OLPC resources are going to porting Sugar to Microsoft Windows..."
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