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Re: [LUG] OLPC urges Microsoft to port Windows 7 to ARM

 

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Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Looks like OLPC are asking for the impossible (or highly unlikely), they 
> want Microsoft to port Windows 7 to ARM!
> 
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/402/1051402/olpc-urges-microsoft-windows-arm
> 
> I can't help but thinking that if they didn't dump Linux for Windows 
> then it wouldn't really be much of an issue.  I bet the nearest they'll 
> get is Microsoft offering them Windows Mobile.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
The argument for windows is the huge catalogue of applications that are
available for it,  (granted there are lots for Linux),  but its key apps
people seem to want, e.g office,  so to port Windows 7 to arm people
will then expect office ported and that will push up the cost,

before long OLPC will end up as one laptop per class, due to the huge
cost of windows and related software licensing, not to mention anti
virus etc.

Why not stick to Linux  it works.

Paul

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