s I sit here looking at my Zonbu(s) (a mini and the notebook), I cannot help but feel overwhelming dismay over all the progress made with "ready-to-go" Linux solutions like the Eee, Cloudbook and of course, the OLPC project. My concern is not in regard to the projects themselves, but it’s where Microsoft is trying to edge their way into something that Linux was working magic with first.

First, we hear about XP coming to the Eee. Then as if a bad omen has come to pass after OLPC and Intel have their falling out, Microsoft is here to pickup on the down and out group in hopes of cashing in with installing Windows XP on the specialized notebook.

For reasons that ought to be obvious, seeing XP being put onto computers that are to be destined for the third-world is simply frightening. Extending the life of a now defunct Windows release simply makes zero sense to any rational individual, regardless of OS preference.

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