The One Laptop per child has finally grown some permanent teeth with the announcement that you can now buy the awesome rig with Windows XP. With a user base in the hundreds of millions, Windows XP is the de-facto OS for most schools, governments and workplace environments.
Many will argue that it is a complex and confusing OS in comparison to the Sugar Linux with Mesh networking that kids will easily adapt. I feel that there is still a place for the Sugar OS in the younger grades and with the kids who have literally no education.
Windows XP will allow an education not only in computing, online resouces and yes, gaming, but will open up a level of computer experience not normally available to kids in third world countries. In fact, I’d expect to see kids getting to KEEP their XO laptop and carry them through school and in to the workplace as an adaptable tool for earning an income and furthering education into the developed world.
For once I say bravo, XO. “Where to you want to go today?”