Normally it is the other way round.
In the continuation post below is a 5 minute video of Microsoft's Bohdan Rakiborski explaining somewhat thinly how Microsoft made Windows XP and Office run on the OLPC. The video serves also as an impressive demonstration of the OLPC laptop itself. There is no mention of OLPC's mesh networking capability - key to its exploitation as an educational device - and which is presumably inoperative when the OLPC runs Windows XP; and of the suite of educational software that ships with OLPC there is no sign. Because it is gone.....
There is a telling look on Rakiborski's face when he says "It starts up about four times faster than the original operating system that ships on the XO laptop" (is this mainly a result of the addition of a 2 GB SD memory card?), but Rakiborski is pretty obviously taken with the underlying design of the laptop - low power consumption, sunlight readable screen, e-book mode etc*.
* At the 2006 World Economic Forum Bill Gates reportedly said, "If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user. Geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type."
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