[techreport] XO laptops with WinXP ready, Microsoft shows its work - Overclock.net

linskingdom · 05-16-08

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Last December, we reported that Microsoft had teamed up with the One Laptop Per Child project, and that the two planned to release a Windows-powered version of the XO "$100 laptop" this year. According to Engadget, Microsoft's task is now complete, and Windows XP is up and running on the XO.

Getting Windows to run on the laptop was no small task. Microsoft reportedly spent about a year on the project, and it had to use a 2GB SD memory card to contain the operating system as well as write custom drivers and a custom BIOS. The development team in charge of the project was able to squeeze Windows XP onto the XO's spartan hardware without removing any components, however, and XP-based XOs boot in only 50 seconds—quicker than with the default Linux OS, Microsoft claims.

You can check out a video of the Windows-powered OLPC in action right here on YouTube. In the video, Microsoft's Bohdan Raciborski talks a little bit about the port and shows how one can accomplish some typical tasks on the machine. Those tasks include running Office 2003, recording audio with the built-in Windows utility, recording a video clip from the OLPC's built-in camera using Windows Movie Maker, and playing back "high bitrate" video in full-screen mode with no (apparent) dropped frames.

Windows-powered XO laptops are officially coming out in August or September. They'll be hitting some countries ahead of schedule as early as next month, though.

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RickJS · 05-16-08

Wow, nice work to microsoft for getting XP on a 2gig SD card.

Licht · 05-16-08

And they stripped nothing? Thats crazy.

voice · 05-16-08

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Originally Posted by Licht

And they stripped nothing? Thats crazy.

Thats what can come from heavy optimisation.

Not only that though, but in theory people with 2GBs of RAM (such as myself) could run this as an application. How crazy is that?

Licht · 05-16-08

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Originally Posted by voice

Thats what can come from heavy optimisation.

Not only that though, but in theory people with 2GBs of RAM (such as myself) could run this as an application. How crazy is that?

Thats not crazy at all, in fact you should be able to run regular XP as an application.

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