
The road to the One Laptop Per Child has been riddled with
humps and bumps, such as hardware issues, the
failure of the 'G1G1' scheme, and the inability to reach the USD 100 price mark, culminating in the
resignation of the project's president yesterday. Now, Negroponte, the project's founder and chairman, has stated something that might alienate the project's strongest supporters even further: the OLPC might evolve into using Windows XP
only.