Microsoft is looking to have its Windows operating system run on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook computers, OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at the Netevents conference in Hong Kong on Saturday.
"I've known Bill [Gates] his entire adult life. We talk, we meet one on one, we discuss this project," Negroponte said according to a transcript that was provided to vnunet.com.
"We put in an SD slot in the machine just for Bill. We didn't need it but those machines are at Microsoft right now, getting Windows put on them."
The SD slots allows users to add additional storage capacity to the units. Additional memory would be required for Windows to run on the current XO test models because they ship with only 512Mb of built in flash memory.
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