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Negroponte Halves OLPC Staff, Phases Out Sugar Linux to Focus on Dual-Screen XO [Olpc] Today, Ars Technica picked up a blip from Nicholas Negroponte, who informed readers of his intention to cut half the staff and reduce pay of the rest, and...

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...hardware - the candy-colored, devil-horn-antennaed XO notebook computer. But he's turned his attention to Sugar, the Linux-based software which runs on the XO. Negroponte, cozying up to Microsoft, wants Sugar to be rewritten for Windows.

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...that currently works with the Linux-based XO laptops. Negroponte asked developers to extend Sugar's development to Windows, which will make XO laptops more appealing to customers. Without touching on the subject of Sugar for Windows, Kim...

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Posted in Software, 24th April 2008 10:55 GMT The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) is adapting its Sugar software package to make it compatible with Microsoft's operating system. The group's founder Nicholas Negroponte said in an...

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...on the XO. In an interview with the Associated Press following the departure of the OLPC project's president, Nicholas Negroponte said the open-source Sugar software, developed expressly for the XO, could run on top of XP. Negroponte...

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In an open letter, Negroponte criticized the development of Sugar, XO's user interface, and asked developers to stop bickering, unite and jointly develop a Windows user interface to make XO laptops more appealing to customers.

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In recent months, the two sides have engaged in more serious talks and started testing the XO Laptop's Sugar software package on Microsoft's Windows operating system, which runs on more than 90 percent of the world's computers.

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...hoping the move to Windows won't cost OLPC the things that made its product unique. The company is aiming to port the XO's "Sugar" interface over to Windows. "We are in discussion with several third parties," Negroponte said. "I suspect we...

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I think Negroponte's comments are mostly on the mark. I did a very detailed assessment of the OLPC over a year ago, and came to very similar conclusions regarding Sugar. Read about it here: http://villamil.org/?p=101 In a...

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