A years-long disagreement between Microsoft and the education project "One Laptop per Child" is fundamentally over - the organization will soon bring Windows to their computers. Microsoft had long resisted joining the project because most of the organizations laptop were based off of a Linux operating system that is a freely distributed alternative to Windows. Though the idea is to get the laptops into the hands of children in developing nations, usually it is the ministries of education that purchase the computers.
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