El gigante del
software está trabajando en el desarrollo de una versión de Windows que
funcione en el ordenador portátil del proyecto One Laptop Per Child
(OLPC).
Will Poole, vicepresidente de Microsoft, ha confirmado el desarrollo:
"Nuestros actuales progresos nos hacen mantener la esperanza, aunque
todavía nos queda un importante trabajo por delante para concluir
nuestro análisis y pruebas".
"Todavía tenemos mucho trabajo por hacer para determinar si el limitado
rendimiento y la escasa memoria de la primera generación de portátiles
XO será compatible con Windows y con las aplicaciones más populares de
nuestro sistema operativo".
Y es que el nuevo portátil emplea algunas tecnologías desarrolladas por
la fundación que no han sido previamente utilizadas en ordenadores
personales, dijo Poole.
En Ingles via Reuters
Microsoft Corp has made progress in getting its Windows
software to work on a low-cost laptop computer for poor children that
currently runs on rival Linux software, an executive said on Thursday.
The world's largest software company is now working to adapt a basic
version of Windows XP so it is compatible with the nonprofit One Laptop
per Child Foundation's small green-and-white XO laptop.
"We're spending a nontrivial amount of money on it," Microsoft
Corporate Vice President Will Poole said in an interview on Thursday.
"We remain hopeful with our progress to date, we still have
significant work ahead to finalize our analysis and testing processes,"
he said. "At the end of the day, there's no guarantees."
The One Laptop per Child Foundation, a spin-off from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, plans to start producing the
$188 machines in China next month and eventually manufacture millions a
year for elementary school children in developing countries in Asia,
Africa and Latin America.
The foundation is also selling the machines in the United States and Canada for $400 apiece through a fund-raising campaign.
The laptops were designed specifically to run Linux programs. If the
machines run only Linux, Microsoft will lose an opportunity to expose
tens of millions of children worldwide to its Windows system.
If the foundation is able to meet its goal of producing millions of
laptops for school children around the world and they are all loaded
with Linux software, then they would end up being more comfortable with
those programs than with Windows, said Wayan Vota, who publishes a blog
that monitors the project. (http://olpcnews.com/)
"People will realize there is an alternative to Windows and they might like it better," Vota said."
But the new laptop uses some technologies developed by the
foundation that haven't previously been used in personal computers,
Poole said.
"We still have plenty of work to do in determining if the highly
constrained performance, power, and memory in the first generation XO
laptops will be compatible with Windows and popular Windows
applications," he added.
Originally dubbed the $100 laptop, which is the group's target price
for the machine, the XO features a string pulley to charge its battery,
a keyboard that switches between languages, a digital video camera and
wireless connectivity.
The laptop's designer, Mary Lou Jepsen, said in an interview earlier
this month she expects the price to drop in the first quarter of next
year because prices of memory tend to fall dramatically during that
period.
The computer requires just 2 watts of power compared with the
typical laptop's 30 to 40 watts and does away with hard drives, relying
instead on flash memory and four USB ports to add memory devices.
The XO laptop's component makers include Advanced Micro Devices Inc
and Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Software maker Red Hat Inc helped
develop the device. Quanta Computer Inc will manufacture it.
The foundation will start taking orders for its Give 1 Get 1 campaign on November 12 at http://www.laptopgiving.org.
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