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I feel this is a major disappointment. Microsoft has made it's billions and billions by marketing and coercion, NOT by providing a better product than the competition. If this MS infiltration into the OLPC project comes to fruition, I fear the project has just committed suicide. What was once an incredibly progressive educational project is turning into just another commercialized laptop project, and at that point it will be in the arena of long time competitors like HP, Dell, etc. Intel had their hooks in the OLPC project, provided some funding, and when they couldn't get their way on the AMD matter, simply quit. All the while using one of those hooks to data mine contact information and try to pull under the table deals with countries interested in getting their kids an XO. Does anyone really think Microsoft is a more moral corporation than Intel? As for the earlier criticism of Sugar, please try it first before making half-baked slams. You can download an iso of a live demo of Sugar and just play with it. The interface is all about easy point and click for kids, designed to spark their curiosity and engage their minds. The OLPC developers spent a lot of time researching Human Interface Design guidelines and just gathering info from people and kids. Sugar is most certainly not some compromise for 'brown people'.

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