Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child project, has told news media that OLPC and Microsoft are working on a dual-boot XO laptop, able to run either Linux or Windows.

There had been speculation that two different XOs might be offered, one for each OS, but Negroponte said OLPC wants to do as Apple does, allowing a user to choose which OS to boot on the same machine.

A dual-boot machine could address some of

the issues OLPC has had in trying to sell its low-cost laptop. With hardware and software designed for children in developing nations, the XO machine has seen its original price target of $100 nearly double, and mass sales have been slow in coming.

OLPC Facing Competition

Some countries have hesitated at huge purchases of the XO machines considering they do not use the world’s most popular OS, and competing computer […]

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