Web Pro News reports on strange operating switches between Linux and Windows and back on Intel Classmate PCs headed for Nigeria. Mandriva originally had the deal, but they later learned that the PCs were going to be wiped and Windows was going to be installed. Shortly after that, the decision to switch to Windows was canceled. The reason has not been explained.
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March 12th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
[...] try very hard to make buyers of the XO choose Windows, instead of Linux, but, as demonstrated with Intel’s Classmate PCs going to Nigeria, they may not succeed. In the case of the Classmate PCs going to Nigeria, the computers were [...]