Vole tries stuffing Windows onto hand-cranked PC

SERVITORS AT THE software giant Vole are frantically trying to stuff the outfit's operating system onto the hand cranked, One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook computers.

Our beloved publisher, Paul Briggs, reporting from the expenses rich hunting grounds of Hong Kong managed to corner the OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte at the NetEvents conference.

Negroponte told Paul that he had known Gates all of his adult life and he knew he secretly approved of the project. He even stuck an SD slot into its laptop just so Bill Gates could stuff Windows onto the unit.

The SD slots allow users to add additional storage capacity to the laptops. Additional memory would be required for Windows to run on the current OLPC XO test models because they ship with only 512MB of built in Flash memory.

Negroponte went on to say that there were a batch of machines that were sitting in the Vole hill getting Windows installed on them.

OLPC has a fair way to go before it meets the Volish specification, for a start it needs 1.5Gb of storage space for both the Home and low cost Starter Edition that Microsoft targets at developing nations. But if Negroponte is right then it would be a major shift by Bill Gates who has slagged off the the OLPC project saying that its screen is too small and the hard drive is too underpowered. µ

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