Microsoft cooks up OLPC dual-boot mud pie

CES always provides plenty of great news, and plenty of juicy gossip, but I love it best when it mixes the two and you end up with a nice big fight. This would appear to be what is happening right now after the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project announced that it and Microsoft were working to develop a dual-booting, Linux and Windows, version of the cheap and cheerful laptop for third world kids. Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC chairman, has been quoted as saying "We are working with them very closely to make a dual-boot system so that, like on an Apple, you can boot either one up. The version that's up and running of Windows on the XO is very fast, it's very, very successful. We're working very hard to do both."