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Microsoft: We are NOT working on a dual-boot XO laptop
by Brad Linder Jan 10th 2008 at 11:00AM
You know how yesterday we brought you news that Microsoft and OLPC were working on a way to dual boot Windows and Linux on the XO laptop? Yeah, despite the fact that the news came right from OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte, it was nothing but lies. Or perhaps an exaggeration. Or a misunderstanding. Anyway, it wasn't quite accurate, at least according to Microsoft.Microsoft has released a statement that basically says the company has looked into the possibility of a dual boot XO laptop in the past, but there are currently no plans for such a system. Rather, Microsoft will publish guidelines soon for running Windows from a removable flash card.
Of course, you could make the case that if Windows is running from a removable flash drive (since the XO only has 1GB of internal memory which isn't really enough to run Windows efficiently), Negroponte and friends could ship a unit running Linux that can also boot from a flash drive. And unless we're mistaken, some folks might call that a dual boot laptop.
In completely unrelated news, Engadget turned us onto the fact that some industrious hackers have managed to cram Amiga OS onto an XO laptop. So the little laptop is certainly capable of running a wide variety of operating systems.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Todd said 3:44PM on 1-10-2008
There is a god after all.
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