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I just fixed an XP laptop for a friend the other night, and I suddenly remembered why I switched to Linux four years ago. Having run Sugar on another computer under Qemu, I think that any child would find it more interesting than XP by an order of magnitude, (at least *I* certainly did!). I don't think the kids care about the OS as long as they can be creative and learn from their OLPCs, and that's the only reason this project is worth doing at all. It's the governments who ultimately purchase the computers that think their kids need XP so they can *keep up* with the rest of the world, and if dual-booting Sugar with XP convinces them to put more of these incredible little machines into the hands of their children it's probably a good thing. Besides, it will probably take the kids about 15 seconds to decide which OS was designed to inspire them, and which one wasn't. Personally, I don't think MicroSoft can pull it off.

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