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Microsoft denies dual-booting OLPC

You're having a Turkish
By INQUIRER Newsdesk
Thu Jan 10 2008, 15:25

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

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Awright then...

"You're having a Turkish" is Cockney rhyming slang. "Turkish Bath" &gt;&gt; "laugh". (It rhymes in a Cockney accent-- "barff" &gt;&gt; "larff".)

posted by : Nick, 13 January 2008 Complain about this comment
Re: Uh-huh

I think you've missed something somewhere.&#xD;
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The OLPC has already been designed. Therefore software requirements must meet hardware requirements, foo'.&#xD;
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posted by : Jim Blawgs, 11 January 2008 Complain about this comment
Re: whaaa?

Just a guess but...&#xD;
Turkish...&#xD;
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Turkish bath...&#xD;
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do cockney rhyming slang...&#xD;
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Laugh!&#xD;
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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.

posted by : Jim Blawgs, 11 January 2008 Complain about this comment
You're having a ...

Cockney rhyming slang ... 'laugh' into 'bath', i.e. Turkish bath.

posted by : e, 11 January 2008 Complain about this comment
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.&#xD;
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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.

posted by : Jim, 10 January 2008 Complain about this comment
whaaa?

Excuse my ignorance but what does "You're having a Turkish" mean?

posted by : aeolus, 10 January 2008 Complain about this comment
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