Microsoft denies dual-booting OLPC
You're having a Turkish
MICROSOFT more or less said, "not on your nelly," to reports that the OLPC's poxy laptop might dual-boot into Windows.
A statement was scrabbled out of Vole Central to the effect that:
“Microsoft is not developing dual-boot Windows XP support for One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop."
It sounds pretty definitive.
A spokesVole admitted the outfit was to have a bash at sticking Winodws XP on the thing, however.
Once its engineers could get their little paws around the cranking handle. µ
Comments
whaaa?
Excuse my ignorance but what does "You're having a Turkish" mean?Uh-huh
Just how would anyone expect the OLPC to even fit any version of the Micr0$0ft LoseDoze O/S? And even if you had and HDD space left after the install for Linux, there wouldn't be enough room for the pagefile, since the amount of RAM isn't satisfactory for M$-Bloatware.The H/W requirements of the OLPC were meant to keep the cost down, to have it need to support M$-Bloatware kind defeats the purpose now, doesn't it? Brilliant.
Re: whaaa?
Just a guess but...Turkish...
Turkish bath...
do cockney rhyming slang...
Laugh!
PS. This is the only good bit of news I've heard about the project for a while. Shame it's still not looking to good.
Re: Uh-huh
I think you've missed something somewhere.The OLPC has already been designed. Therefore software requirements must meet hardware requirements, foo'.
You're having a ...
Cockney rhyming slang ... 'laugh' into 'bath', i.e. Turkish bath.Awright then...
"You're having a Turkish" is Cockney rhyming slang. "Turkish Bath" >> "laugh". (It rhymes in a Cockney accent-- "barff" >> "larff".)