Windows XP will be tested on OLPC in January
With the advent of new technologies called Boot Camp and Parallels you can run Windows on a Mac. If that is not enough you can run Windows on Asus’s low-cost laptop the Eee PC. It seems like Microsoft is looking for more and this time they are planning to bring Windows XP to the XO laptop, famed to be called One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). Microsoft released a statement yesterday announcing plans to begin testing XP on the XO in January in the hopes of making a final version available by the second half of 2008. But the only problem seems to be that XO PC has only one GB of memory while XP requires at least 2GBs to run smoothly. So Microsoft insisted that an SD card slot be included in the XO, and is developing a version of XP that will run off of a removable storage card. Some people at Eee User forum have demonstrated that you can indeed run Windows XP with less than 2GB of storage by removing the page file and using nLite to slim down your installation. But 1GB would still be pushing it. Governments evaluating purchases of the XO should continue to consult with Microsoft regarding possible Windows XP availability date, pricing and support policies. In addition, there are no plans to offer a version of Windows that is compatible with the XO laptop for retail purchase in the U.S. and Canada.

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