What Windows Might Look Like On The OLPC

Gotta love it. Mighty old Windows showing the third world how advanced we are in quality software development. On the other hand, why should the poor people on this world not have to go through the same pains that we had to before we discovered OSX and Linux

Don’t get me wrong, we love all computers

Peter
do you follow me @ http://twitter.com/peterurban

Wow, how many times has this joke been done?

@Peter U: You are correct its just that if I had money I would give also many laptops.

Do you follow me? @Twitter LC

No matter how many times this joke has been done, its still a classic.

@ Live Crunch

We actually do support the project and I personally think it’s a critical project to avoid the social gap to grow even wider between the worlds.

Peter
do you follow me: Peter Urban @ Twitter

I actually did the same thing for my blog post on this. I wish I had thought to submit it to TC!

I am a Windows systems enginner and have worked for very high profiled applications in medical field.
When you go to ER, your life depends on apps hosted on Windows platform.
Every insurance co. out there is on Windows. So many critical web sites are hosted on windows.

Yeah Mac is cool if you wanna edit and upload you tube videos and but I really dont understand all this stupid “lets make fun of Windows mentality”.

When’s the last time somebody actually got a BSOD?! I honestly can’t remember the last time I did.. it’s been several years and that’s including several XP installs and a Vista install. But I guess it makes the tiny % of mac users feel better if they keep throwing out the same tired joke that doesn’t even apply anymore.

@7
Because its the trendy thing to do. Its like people who brag about how big their wiener is. They act like they’re hung like a retarded donkey, when instead it looks like an acorn sitting on a beanbag.

I’ve always laughed at the Mac commercials, not because they’re creative or anything, but they have to slander another OS to boost their own sales. I dont see Microsoft doing that…

Golf-clap to Bob for his comedy.

BTW, did anyone notice the default search for OLPC? It’s google, of course. Contribution by Google to the OLPC codebase — that’s right, built into the (non-windows) OS.

Microsoft, Google….birds of a feather.

@I dont understand

Brand Loyalty = Herd Mentality

havent seen a bsod for five years using xp.

they are doing good deeds, why hurt MS’s feeling? We also want the kids get access to a more common windows with lower cost, don’t we?

I would expect a little bit more from techcrunch. It will be really sad if this becomes trend on this site. Another Windows/MAC hater ring?

Peter Urban stop talking to yourself (a.k.a LiveCrunch)

You forgot to change your stupid “do you follow me” link when you last posted as Peter….lamer!!!

http://www.sadtrombone.com/

booooooooooooooooo!

is it me or do all mac supporters drive VWs’?

I recently switched to a Mac to be more easily compatible with my coworkers, and while I’m extremely happy with my new machine, I must admit that I find myself embarrassed regularly by other Mac users.

Ever find yourself in a coffee shop and glance over at the screen of the nearest Mac user? Five bucks says they’re on Apple.com.

Cheap joke. Get a life man

A kernel panic screen for 400USD would be much better isn’t it, Mactards.

It’s very nice digital fake done by Adobe Photoshop. On the upper right side of blue screen — You can see sharp edge instead of oval. It would be nice to show it on youtube.

#8 “When’s the last time somebody actually got a BSOD?!”

About an hour ago.

grrrrooooaaaaaan, come on! this might have been funny 5 years ago :\

People need to take things less seriously (in reference to some other comments) — it’s a funny little jab!

You would think the kids in third world countries would have suffered enough. At least we know what Microsoft is doing with all their old Windows ME discs.

We know that Jimmy, it’s a joke. A classic one

When you go to ER, your life depends on apps hosted on Windows platform.

@ I dont understand,

Now I feel really unsafe. Thanks a lot. No wonder healthcare sucks so much.

XP on OLPC.. What a disappointment.

–
http://crunchlabz.com

#8 “When’s the last time somebody actually got a BSOD?!”

I don’t get one but only because my machine keeps rebooting after SP3.

In Vista it’s not blue anymore. More of a hip grayscale sorta thing…

*yawn*

How original. Elitist bloggers poking fun at Microsoft.

Do you still make fun of fat kids during recess, too?

“No wonder healthcare sucks so much.” Yeap…
What is biggest discrimination in the U.S?

Healthcare system for all class, race, income, status, and repulations. You don’t get the best healthcare and treatments. You have doctors write notes and kept in very large private data. It’s soo secret… No one can dig that deeper secrets inside health care system. Not even government and private sectors.

Only God gifted disability who can break into healthcare system. You could only get best healthcare if break into real national treasure, CIA’s Kryptos, the secrets of holy gail. It’s very dangerous for anyone to mess and hack into private database inside AREA 51. What is best thing to do?

Grow old, read techcrunch, and die.

@30 - you skipped your meds didn’t you.

I think that OLPC is being terribly mismanaged (check out Ivan’s post on the OLPC Planet for a good summary) and I think Windows on the OLPC is a dumb idea because the disk space requirements are bigger and they have to upgrade the flash memory from 1GB to 4GB to make Windows work and thereby massively increasing the price. I think, however, that Techcrunch’s OLPC reporting is almost never informed but instead spiteful and ignorant. Techcrunch is great and the shoddy OLPC reporting is not only unfair to the project and to the people who hate how it is managed and want to change it (I am not affiliated though I bought a 1G1G). Either write real articles (with real research) about it or just ignore it.

I think windows on olpc is lame but wow this might the least creative post I’ve ever seen on any topic. You must have been up all night working on that. Soooo lame. That’s really the best you’ve got? Pathetic.

This a US+EU+Japan countermeasure to stop GDP growth of developing countries in the next 3 decades.

Very smart…

Yeap.. It’s very very important for me to stay healthy and clean. I don’t believe doctors and healthcare providers. I’m sick of tire getting professionally scam and scam by drug TV ads.

I heard before OLPC XO-1 been created . Apple offered Mac OS X for them but they said they want a fully open source operating system. Now, all they have is fully closed source operating system. Poor judgment from Negroponte.

@Zoul poor judgment by Negroponte perhaps, but brilliant negotiating by the MS sales team. It’s the same tactics as beauty salons are using with the 6 year olds, hook them when they are young and fragile and you’ll have an addicted customer for life.

hahahahahaha, so tue. That just made my day - Thanks!

According to Steve Jobs, by and large, people do not read anymore - better invest in VIDEO.

@22, I agree… this isn’t funny anymore.

Someone knows how to use the ‘I’ve got nothin’ original/dead horse’ stamping tool! I’m astonished that anyone still thinks this is clever. If it “made your day” you haven’t had one to speak of.

If only people understood that it wasn’t Microsoft that courted OLPC, but the other way around. The reason OLPC decided to switch to Microsoft was because third world countries wanted their kids to start learning Windows. These countries realized that the Sugar core did not cut it. There are almost a dozen countries that are holding out on OLPCs because they do not run Windows. The haters can bitch all they want, but they cant change the facts.

Any new web 2.0 startup?

I’ve never gotten a BSOD with Windows XP.

@7 - I don’t Understand

Simple Psychology, the minority always bands together and becomes a team for their cause.

Look at how low Mac has to go with commercial full of Rhetoric. I’m glad Windows doesn’t stoop that low, because there are lots of things they could say. Bill Gates is giving lots of money to high schools, Steve Jobs is building a rocket.

I am not a windows fanboy and I have had vista for over a year and 0 problems, but the passive aggressiveness level of maturity makes one laugh when you realize how much Apple controls their users. If I owned a Mac, I’d feel mocked by their shallow commercials and flavor of the month orgy of pop culture.

One of the great ironies is Mac went to PCs inside standards and if weren’t for the iPod revolution, Mac would probably not be where it is today. Mac people quickly forget this.

I will say this about mac, their clean line designs are the best. As for OS, yeah I’ve seen Mac OSX freeze up too, just because the screen wasn’t blue doesn’t mean you’re sh*t doesn’t stink either. But it is funny to see all the people who believe the rhetoric. Like “they have WMD and we’re all going to die unless we attack!” It always amazes me how many people who don’t think, except for, do I look cool with a Mac or a PC? Seriously I need to know, I am shallow and care what others think about me. I wanna be the cool young kid in the commercial, not the fat nerd who doesn’t get laid.

MS is evil and Apple is good right?
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/m.....6/01/70072

Think before you open your mouths. MS has done more for us than Apple, and I’m not going to count your flavor of the month iPod and iPhone. That’s help us so much I know, how could you listen to Justin Timber Lake on the way to the mall without it? OMG what will people think if you don’t conform to pop culture! I am so insecure, I need to be cool to be liked cause I am so shallow. omg help me Apple, hurry and release something new and fullfill me with some material item that brings value to my life. USA USA USA…. pffft dBags

Lame.

Please take your OS hatred elsewhere. You’re really going to lose the average guy on this one, because we’re not all Linux losers who barf software politics on unsuspecting passers-by.

Who gets the blue screen of death anymore? C’mon, step out of the 90s, grandma.

by making posts like this your degrading your image
i mean come on now grow up

And they ask why we hate M$ to death

It is their monopolistic tactics to do business

They should be shut down and fed to pigs like the scum they are

Olpc is a scam. These kids don’t need computers. They need real help.
Besides, Windows and Linux are essentially the same OS.

@43 thirdworld - exactly
@10 jro - google is also a sponsor, so of course will be the default

I am about ready to break up with all my Office 2007 products and IE, and I’m a last holdout, but I can break a mac and get its crimson hued slightly tinged with fuscia blank screen of death easily too, so not sure why people say macs never freeze/ crash. Give me your mac and I’ll crash it as I do all computers….

We hear you fall,
we hear you scream,
we know it’s hard,
hard to believe…

And yet again,
this is the thing,
it’s called right,
marketing scheme.

You see this first,
you fall in love,
then you get hooked,
you are now in love.

Say that again?
I have to pay?
How much is it?
500 you say?

I know that - I
need - it - to survive,
to - remain competitive,
work to stay alive.

The first fix’s free,
and you get hooked,
then when you need it to be,
it turns out you are screwed.

Tsk tsk tsk.

Give me a break.. like apple is doing anything to help the 3rd world.. at least MS is.
The blue screen joke is played out, its really not funny anymore.

P.S: I use apple, but apple fan boys are the most annoying people on earth.

wow. this is funny… NOT! when i read it came from google what do you expect from the biggest search monopoly in the world. those bastards who scans all your info without out you knowing it. We’re better off without them…

sigh… my Mike, il say it again. An education project is never about the OS it’s about teaching kids… and helping them.

I’m so over seeing this at every turn…

its easy to poke fun of the leader in any industry, its great to be #2.

Enjoy the now mac users because one day you’ll be #1 and you’ll have all the crap that MS has put up with every day for the last 5 years.

Ahem.
I run Vista x64 and get bsod approx 3 times a week.

I realize that it is now “cool” to bash Microsoft and warship Apple, but I was under the misapprehension that Techcrunch was a general technology blog, not an Apple fan blog. These adolescent Microsoft barbs are appearing more and more on Techcrunch, and each time this happens it lessons my interest in your publication as a reputable source of technology news.

#59 - dkraft >

Then you obviously have no idea how to handle and/or maintain a computer.

#0 - Michael >

Techcrunch really is sinking lower and lower for every day.

Oh dear, this is the first time I’ve come across this site and boy, aren’t we a touchy lot.

Surely we should be considering horses for courses. What will work best with this computer. Yes, Microsoft is bloated and fat, that’s why Vista is a non starter on OLPC. Remember, the more bloated the Operating System the less room there is for any Applications software. And, what do you use on a computer? Not Windows, Mac nor Linux, they just support the real work horses, the word processors, spread sheets, CAD, ect.

For information, I used to use Xp on my desktop but changed to openSuSE when my copy of Xp, (bought legitimately), failed to authenticate on a rebuild and, I’m not going to give Bil Gates more money to get software I already own to work again! (Evidently, you never own your Microsoft software, you just get a license to use it.)

This is so original it’s kinda funny - not. Just like a not joke!

This is great! I’m adding it to my blog post on sub-laptops at http://theinnovativeeducator.b.....dding.html.

Thanks!
Lisa Nielsen-The Innovative Educator
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com

that’s win9x, not 2000, XP or Vista. Looks kinda old, at least the text is centered. On Linux it would be arranged top left and it would be a black screen, which we all know consumes more energy

JK

Not sure how I wandered into this site but I feel you ought to have a play warden on duty to stop all you kiddies from self-destructing.

Here is that device with mac running on it. Pink Screen Of Death

I thing these is black humor since XP is reliable and i agree that it will be a good answer for those who don´t have chance to publish here any message at all. So for starting is very good XP in OLPC, maybe in the future they can choose.

Still works better than a Mac… BURNNNNN LOL OMFG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://eupgrader.com/1039/fung.....ulfilling/

‘nough said