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Microsoft, OLPC tie the knot after virility test

The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties. The companies plan to sell a Windows-powered XO in five or six countries starting next month, with a broader release in August or September. Read more »

Steve Wozniak: $100 laptop deserves a Nobel Prize

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has revealed he's a big fan of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project but confessed that his own plans to switch entirely to the device have gone awry. Read more »

Negroponte: Dual-boot OLPC laptop on the way

OLPC found Nicholas Negroponte has hinted a dual boot XO laptop could soon be on the way. Read more »

Gates talks about the future before farewell

For years, Bill Gates has been trumpeting software's ascent from the lowly PC to everything from mobile phones to home entertainment. In this interview before his farewell speech, Gates talks about competitors, the future of DVD, and why all of those seamless connections between digital devices exist only in keynote speeches. Read more »

US$100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'

The One Laptop per Child project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and co-founder of the MIT Media Laboratory. Read more »

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Competition: Gates vs Woz Deathmatch

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Tell us who you think would win in a deathmatch between Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and go in the running to pick up some free gear. Read more »

XO to run XP

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When Bill Gates says that everything in the world should be a computer, what he means is that everything in the world should be running Windows. Read more »

2008 -- where 2006 exploits still rule

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- So the question is: who is running their SQL servers on systems unpatched since 2006 and/or not installing service packs? The answer is clearly enough people to warrant continued exploitation. Read more »

Introducing IE8: The Ocho

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Over in Las Vegas the MIX conference is underway and that means only one thing: Microsoft announcements and plenty of them. Read more »

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    When Apple announced it would be vetting every application submitted for inclusion in the App Store, this was just the kind of question that entered many a mind: just how arbitrary would the company be in wielding that veto power? Read more »

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    Hands up if you missed the Chrome release -- didn't think anyone did. Google's browser arrived with all the fanfare and hype that only Google can produce. Read more »

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    Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform". Read more »

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