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Peru to Trial Windows Operated XO Laptop
Mon, 22 Sep 2008
The One Laptop Per Child foundation and Microsoft have announced that Peru is to become the first country to try out XO laptops running Microsoft Windows . The trial is part of a nine month pilot program, though the companies are still deliberating over the exact size of the trial. OLPC had previously operated only on Linux, but a number of countries stated that they would only be interested in the XO laptop if it ran on Windows.

Peru’s Education Minister, Jose Antonio Chang Escobedo, said, ‘We are extremely excited to take part in this historic educational pilot that will benefit school children throughout Peru. Integrating technology into our school curriculum will help to advance our knowledge economy, improve access to information and will generate opportunities for our students, which, through governmental policies, aims to improve the learning process we are offering our children, as well as closing the digital divide which currently exists between schools in rural and urban areas’.

Meanwhile, Charles Kane, the President of the One Laptop Per Child foundation, said, ‘This pilot in Peru represents an important milestone in the evolution of One Laptop Per Child. It demonstrates our ability to collaborate with Microsoft to provide governments with a choice of operating system on the XO laptop’.