Windows needs more memory than Linux (OLPC)

After positions against the OLPC project (One Laptop Per Child), Microsoft and Bill Gates seem to be interested in.

Recently, a memory flash slot has been added to the OLPC machines, so they can operate under Windows.

In the beginning, the OLPC machines were designed to run under Linux Fedora by Red Hat, but Nicholas Negroponte (who is a friend of Bill Gates) said a memory flash slot was added to allow 512M of memory to be added !

The OLPC project leader also precises than the Linux box do not need all that memory.

So, it seems than both the OLPC project objectives and Microsoft's ones have changed ...

Microsoft, who has won the battle of the software for PC twenty years ago, probably does not want to be out of the OLPC one.