After watching this clip I realized two things. The commercial lacks creativity and Seinfeld’s show closed before 9/11. Our world is a lot different today. The AD/PR firm should be fired. I thought there were creative types in NYC.
The OLPC program is moving through a rough time right now with the announced departures of initial key members and the new Microsoft announcement to bring XP onto the XO Laptops.
Walter Bender, former President of OLPC has launched Sugar Labs to promote the use of Sugar on more devices. Sugar is open source and I’m running it on my Powerbook via VMware’s Fusion. Sugar Lab’s approach: children should not be forced to learning a legacy operating system designed for adult computer programmers.
Lets face facts. XP is not designed for the world’s children living in poverty. The design is simple and perfect for children:
Well the long wait is over. Microsoft Press Release has struck a deal with OLPC to offer XP on those little laptops. I’m not sure this is a good thing. Ask anyone who has Vista if they would like to downgrade back to XP (I did) and then you realize this is what will be introduced to millions of future Microsoft customers children around the world?
Lots of press here: Slashdot, NYTimes, CNET, Gizmodo,
I’m counting on the fact that behind the scenes Microsoft is helping fund OLPC. I’m not sure Sugar has what it takes to be the interface because OLPC clearly failed to market the story behind Sugar. And that’s a shame.
Tags: OLPC, sugar, Microsoft, XP, globalization, laptop, trends
The huge success of web apps have made me think about jumping into the cloud with Microsoft’s Office suite.
Back in the day, Office was really the only game in town. Today Google’s App services had taken the lead in the Web2.0 surge.
Apps provide great functionality and workgroup solutions for free. Many users will never push Excel to its limits. Google Apps which includes a powerful spreadsheet app is definitely good enough for many of us on a day to day basis.
Robert Scoble announced:
I’ve been watching my usage. In two months I’ve only used Outlook out of the entire Office Suite. Everything else? Moved onto online services.”
– 09:06 AM April 30, 2008 from web