In the News...
Over the last couple years I worked for Microsoft on bringing Windows XP to the OLPC XO-1. Here's a few news clips involving the OLPC. Much of this work was rolled into other versions of XP for Netbooks. In fact, if you use a Netbook which uses Windows XP - there's a fair chance some of the work our team did is responsible for your netbook working.
Anyway...here's a collection of news blips on some of the stuff we did.
OLPC Work...
Over the last year or so I was busy being a Program Manager over at Microsoft. Between 2007 and 2008 I was over at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, working with the Windows Unlimited Potential Program and the Microsoft PC3 Windows COSD groups to put Windows XP Pro on the OLPC XO-1. You can read more about that work here...
Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable Computing to Students Worldwide
or watch this cool video here...
Or... You can read about it here on James Utzschneider's Inside Up Blog...
Or... about the cool trip to Cambridge where MS got to show off our work to OLPC...
Or... see it here...
There was a LOT of stuff written about this project and a lot continues to get written about it. It was an awesome project and as you can imagine I'm very proud to have worked on it.
What I did on the OLPC Windows XP project...
So what did I do on it? I was the Program Manager working with the Driver Development teams, and also worked with the UPG (Unlimited Potential Group) with the pilots and even some of the work on <statement redacted> I actually designed some of the <statement redacted> (Don't you just hate Non-Dsiclosure Agreements??).
Anyway - I worked under Bohdhan and John who you see in the photos and videos on pretty much all of the cool stuff that you see. It was an amazing and wonderful experience and I am beyond proud of all the teams I worked with to help make it happen. Hats off to the everyone - they're literally the best on the planet. Congrats!
Needy Children To Receive Laptops With Microsoft XP, Office
InformationWeek, NY - Oct 6, 2008
East Africa: EAC MPs Want OLPC Adopted in All States
AllAfrica.com, Washington - Oct 4, 2008
OLPC Fires Up Give One, Get One Round Two
Digitaltrends.com, OR - Sep 30, 2008
OLPC eyes 1 mn laptop sales in India
Economic Times, India - Sep 25, 2008
OLPC in sbemail 200
Cnet Asia, CA - Sep 23, 2008
Peru to be first with new OLPC laptop with Windows
PC World Magazine, Australia - Sep 16, 2008
Microsoft Joins One Laptop per Child
BusinessWeek - May 15, 2008
OLPC has long talked about putting a Microsoft operating system on its little green-and-white machine. But the announcement comes at a critical time, ...
Microsoft's $3 Windows fine by OLPC
InfoWorld - Apr 25, 2007
Our mission is not to beat Apple, Dell, or Microsoft." OLPC is preparing to release the $100 laptop to its first customers sometime after September this ...
Microsoft denies dual-booting OLPC
Inquirer - Jan 10, 2008
By INQUIRER Newsdesk: Thursday, 10 January 2008, 3:25 PM. MICROSOFT more or less said, "not on your nelly," to reports that the OLPC's poxy laptop might ...
Microsoft to Try Windows XP Out on OLPC in January
PC World - Dec 5, 2007
Microsoft field trials of Windows XP running on the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop will take place next month. Microsoft said it plans to conduct field ...
Tons more on this story as it develops.