Skip the navigation  OLPC developing dual-boot Windows, Linux OS
for laptops  By Dan Nystedt January 9, 2008 12:00 PM ET    It's
a brand new development for the XO laptops, as the low-cost
notebooks are known, and came about because of Microsoft's
friendlier attitude toward open-source software.  Microsoft has
embraced the open-source community over the past few years in a
very different way than before, Negroponte said. "And that
really helps, because it's become a little bit less religious
than it was a few years ago and that's really good. In the end,
I think, the more people that have software and hardware out
there, the better."  The OLPC laptop currently runs a Fedora-
based Linux operating system, and Microsoft has offered a
version of Windows XP for the laptop project. There had been
speculation that OLPC would simply offer two separate laptop
PCs, but a dual-boot system could remove the need to offer two
separate laptops. Such a device could also reduce the need to
have competing low-cost laptops -- r