I read with interest on the BBC website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7130637.stm) that Microsoft are porting XP to the OLPC XO. You might say, so what? and so would I normally… but, if MS can actually get XP working at a usable performance level then that improvement could be re-applied back to existing PC’s possibly realising increased performance. Although I’m not expecting to see a retail release for XO, MS seem quite serious as they have 40 engineers on the project. Clearly Vista would never be able to lumber onto the current XO platform but XP improvements are tantalisingly possible.
